[b-hebrew] re: etymology

Jim West jwest at highland.net
Sun Apr 3 21:12:48 EDT 2005



Yitzhak Sapir wrote:

>Karl Randolph wrote:
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>>The Arabic is a different language from a millenium later. 
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>Both roots are attested in Ugaritic.
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>>Ugaritic post-dates the earliest Hebrew by centuries
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Karl must have meant to say "pre-dates".  He has to have meant that 
because the archaeological evidence only goes in that direction.

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