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  • From: "Isaac Fried" <if AT math.bu.edu>
  • To: "Randall Buth" <randallbuth AT gmail.com>
  • Cc: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Derivation pattern?
  • Date: Mon, 26 Dec 2011 13:39:41 +0200

1. Yes, it is strange.

2. I see the ending -ON as a curtailed HINO, 'it is', referring to the thing described. The ending -AN may refer to a person, as in, say, PAXD-AN, 'coward'; ANI PAXD-AN.

Isaac Fried, Boston University

Having said that, the suggestion that KShRWN means
"profiting, he who is profiting [sic--RB]" is equally strange.
The -wn suffix is more commonly 'abstract, abstract result'
than referring to a doer, "he who . . .". (It does occur in
proper names fairly frequently [e.g. Shim`on, Hebron], but
that doesn't make any common nouns an "agent, doer, patient"
with a "+human" attribute, to speak semantically.)





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