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  • From: Søren Holst <sh AT teol.ku.dk>
  • To: Biblical Hebrew <b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: SV: 4 Misc. Questions (biliteral roots?)
  • Date: Thu, 30 Sep 1999 21:20:02 +0200


Good evening

There's a little about it in E.Y. Kutscher "A history of the Hebrew
Language" p. 6, with references to Ullendorf's article "What is a Semitic
language?" + the classical works of Bergstrasser, Th. Noldeke's "Neue
Beitrage zur semitischen Sprachwissenschaft" (1910) and J.H. Greenberg in
"Word" 6 (1950). Don't have time to go hunting for any of it right now, but
thought I'd pass it on.

shalom uvrakha
Soren Holst
Copenhagen

> -----Oprindelig meddelelse-----
> Fra: peter_kirk AT sil.org [SMTP:peter_kirk AT sil.org]
> Sendt: 1. oktober 1999 00:39
> Til: Biblical Hebrew
> Emne: Re: 4 Misc. Questions
>
> Dear Brian,
>
> No-one seems to have given you the type of answer I think you were
> looking for to your first question:
>
> 1. I am looking for some bibliography on the 3 letter reconstructions
> being artifical in BH roots. If the first two radicals are the same
> and the third is different but are connected words isn't the 3 letter
> root concept forced?
>
> I guess you are referring to cases in which several BH roots with
> similar meaning share one or two consonants. The same happens in other
> Semitic languages. There seems to be two separate processes. For
> example GKC 30g notes the set of roots KRR, KRH, KWR and )KR, and the
> set DKK, DWK, DK) and DKH, which seem to be derived from the biliteral
> roots KR and DK expanded in different ways into triliterals. However,
> the set of roots in GKC 30h all seem to have the idea of cutting: QCC,
> QCH, QCB, QCP, QC(, QCR; Q+B, Q+L, Q+P; KSH, KSS, NKS (Syriac); GZZ,
> GZH, GZM, GZ(, GZL, GZR; GDD, GD(, GDH, GDP, GDR; XDD, XDL, XDQ, XDR,
> XD$; XWS, XWC, XZH, XZZ, X+B, X++, X+P, XSL, XSS, XSP, XCB, XCH, XCC,
> XCR; these look like an original biliteral root with (mostly) a suffix
> (B,P,(,R,L,M,Q,$ are attested here). See GKC for some further
> explanation, but this is of course dated. There is some discussion (at
> a common Semitic level) in "Comparative Semitic Linguistics" by
> Patrick R. Bennitt (Eisenbrauns 1998) pp.62-64 but this does not go
> beyond pointing out the issue and its potential links with common
> Afro-Asiatic and even with Indo-European. Can anyone take this
> further?
>
> Peter Kirk
>
>
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