[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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Jim West
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