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  • From: Uri Hurwitz <uhurwitz AT yahoo.com>
  • To: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: [b-hebrew] PQH vs PTCh
  • Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2012 09:32:32 -0700 (PDT)

Wasn't the circle a mark of the '('  'Ayin' in all
early samples of the Alphabet?

  Uri Hurwitz                         Great Neck, NY



hebrew] PQH vs PTCh
Bill wrschmidt wrote:

.........

In fact, in retrospect I don't think one can summarily dismiss the
possibility that the concept of opening in these verbs was originally
inchoate in the scribal practice of using a circle as a logogram to
represent the opening that Hebrew wordsmiths called peh, considering
that 1) the letter peh was by all accounts originally nothing but a
circle, and 2) words for mouths, per se, were derived from words that
referred more broadly to opening.

................

Bill








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