[b-hebrew] Genesis 31: 47: What Foreign Language Is That?
Uri Hurwitz
uhurwitz at yahoo.com
Thu Nov 22 17:27:15 EST 2007
Yitzhak Sapir wrote:
<snip>
..."It is unlikely that &hd is related to Arabic shahid, and
reinterpreting shahid so
that it contains some relationship to "witness" is simply popular etymology.
If there is some relationship etc."...
" Shaid" in Arabic is witness. It is better to know what one is talking about.
The Aramaic equivalent of it is spelled with a Samekh in Hebrew.
( The terrible connotations that this Arabic noun has nowadays is
outside the scope of this list)
Uri Hurwitz
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