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  • From: Peter Kirk <peterkirk AT qaya.org>
  • To: Vadim Cherny <vadim_lv AT center-tv.net>
  • Cc: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Re: Isaiah 53:8 lamo
  • Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2004 12:20:18 +0000

On 22/12/2004 09:24, Vadim Cherny wrote:

Jack Kilmon wrote:


One's religious opinions should be disassociated from serious discussion

of

linguistics. I'm sorry, but ALL of the above, including the homophobia

and

"designed language" stuff makes no sense whatsoever.


This brings us all the way back to the old discussion of the designed
language. Silly as it may sound, I do adhere to this theory to considerable
extent. It is beyond question that in many cases the third radical was added
to the first two, forming a new root. ...


It is indeed quite likely that sometime in the misty prehistory of the Afro-Asiatic languages, before the split between Semitic, Berber and Egyptian (for these groups share the triliteral root structure), many roots were composed from some kind of biliteral root plus a suffix giving a more precise semantic - perhaps much as Greek, Latin, Russian verbs etc are commonly made up of an often monosyllabic root with a prefix giving a more precise semantic. The details of this process are lost in the mists of time, probably irretrievably, although something might be possible from comparative Afro-Asiatic studies.

But this is not evidence of deliberate design, in the precursors of Hebrew any more than in Greek, Latin and Russian.

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Peter Kirk
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