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  • From: "Trevor Peterson" <06peterson AT cua.edu>
  • To: <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: RE: [b-hebrew] )BYNW $B$MYM
  • Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2003 05:38:47 -0400

Peter wrote:

> No. $- is a version of the relative pronoun, perhaps a contraction of
> 'asher,

I suspect it's rather an independent form. Akkadian uses $a regularly,
and it's probably cognate with Aramaic d-.

Trevor Peterson
CUA/Semitics





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