Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Peter_Kirk AT SIL.ORG]

I can't reply to all of yours. But please can you explain the 
following:

"the name [Philistines] adheres Indo-European linguistic indicators, 
reducing the hope of finding a non-I-E group to fit the name to 
nonexistence."

Surely a place name P.:Le$eT fits a good Semitic pattern and its 
inhabitants would regularly be known as P.:Li$:T.iY; the feminine T 
suffix remains in Hebrew gentilics like Ma(:aKfTiY, (a$:T.:RfTiY. I 
have even proposed a known Semitic root for it: P-L-$ "dig, break 
through". What's so Indo-European about this name?

Peter