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  • From: "uri hurwitz" <uhurwitz AT yahoo.com>
  • To: b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu
  • Subject: Re: OFF TOPIC Modern Hebrew question
  • Date: Thu, 16 May 2002 12:22:33 -0400


> What does one say in Modern Hebrew when a person sneezes (if anything)? It
> occurred to me the other day that I use the German reply a lot, but maybe
> as a Semiticist I should use Hebrew. I'm pretty sure it never comes up in
> Biblical Hebrew, so let's work with what there is. (I know--I should have
> learned Modern Hebrew by now, but unfortunately it's not required for my
> program, and I don't have the time to do extra stuff right now.) Anyway,
> if you feel that this is completely unrelated to the purpose of this list,
> you're probably right--feel free to reply off-list :-)
>
> Thanks,
> Trevor Peterson
>
CUA/Semitics

In my time they used to say: "labriut" some times, slightly incorrectly
,"libriut" in both cases "to the health" or "to health". Perhaps Jonathan
could bring us up-to-date? Uri




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