[b-hebrew] chalal - perforate/pierce?/KRH
Isaac Fried
if at math.bu.edu
Fri Sep 7 05:08:56 EDT 2007
Yigal,
You are right. I would not play such games with the Phoenicians; with
them I would limit myself to shesh-besh. Do you think it is a mere
accident of nature that the square Hebrew letters he and xet are
nearly identical?
Isaac Fried, Boston University
On Sep 6, 2007, at 11:15 PM, Yigal Levin wrote:
> Isaac,
>
> Such playing with the shapes of the letters might look impressive
> in modern
> Hebrew (actually originally Aramaic) block letters, but Hebrew was
> originally written using the older ("Pheonician") forms of the
> letters, most
> of which are different enough so that such games don not work.
>
>
> Yigal Levin
>
>
>
>> No, it's a different letter, and they are different roots, those with
>> a kaf and those with a chet
>>
>>
>> Shoshana,
>>
>> You are right, but for diversity there is a kaf and there is a xet.
>> The letter kaf is merely the letter xet turned upon its side. A he is
>> a xet with a disconnected left leg, a qof is a he with an elongated
>> leg, and gimel is a cross legged he.
>>
>> Isaac Fried, Boston University
>>
>
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