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  • From: <pporta AT oham.net>
  • To: "Isaac Fried" <if AT math.bu.edu>, <george.athas AT moore.edu.au>
  • Cc: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Genesis 31: 47 - Suffix -UT
  • Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2007 06:05:57 +0100

Your argument is very clear to me, except that I still don't see HOW
the particle, to use your terminology, -UT turns a noun into an
abstract noun.

Isaac Fried, Boston University

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Melek, king ---------> malkut (malk-ut), royalty (1Ch 29:25)

How can this -ut be explained as a combining of personal pronouns?

For confirmation: in Israeli Hebrew.... there are plenty of cases where a final -ut means an abstract concept:

1. adom, red ---------> admut, redness
2. pikeaH, seer (Ex 4:11) ----------> pikHut, cleverness
3. sefer, book ---------> sifrut, literature
etc. etc.

Pere Porta
Barcelona (Spain)






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