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  • From: Isaac Fried <if AT math.bu.edu>
  • To: "Nir cohen - Prof. Mat." <nir AT ccet.ufrn.br>
  • Cc: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] suffixes
  • Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2012 08:00:37 -0500

1. Am I right in thinking that by "origin" you mean root?

2. In the form WA-YE-BK ויבך of Gen. 27:38 the "suffixed" personal pronoun for the
actor of the act BK is instead "infixed" (or "suffixed-prefixed"):
BA-HI-BK בא-היא-בך where WA = BA is 'came to be', as in the previous
WAYISA = BA-HI-SA בא-היא-שא

Isaac Fried, Boston University

On Feb 27, 2012, at 1:18 PM, Nir cohen - Prof. Mat. wrote:

2. the word you chose is one of the most difficult and irregular. i can
provide several contradicting conjectures to its origin. however, it is clear
that the transformation H$TXWH --> WY$TXW is the so-called "short
form" obtained by removing the final H, just as $TH --> WY$T or
BKH --> WYBK.





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