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- From: "M. Brody" <mbrody AT earthling.net>
- To: Biblical Hebrew <b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
- Subject: Re: "Yemen"
- Date: Wed, 10 Feb 1999 19:43:43 +0200
Thank you Peter_Kirk AT SIL.ORG for your letter 0n 10:49 10/02/99 -0500. You
wrote:
>"Yemen" is spelt with "ya".
>Clearly the root y-m-n means "right" (side) as in Hebrew.
>Peter Kirk
And ,of course, "Yamin" means "South" [when the observer is "oriented"
facing the East ], which is it's direction relative to the land of Israel.
Menachem
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Menachem Brody
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"Yemen",
George Athas, 02/09/1999
- <Possible follow-up(s)>
- Re: "Yemen", Peter_Kirk, 02/10/1999
- Re: "Yemen", M. Brody, 02/10/1999
- Re: "Yemen", Jonathan D. Safren, 02/11/1999
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