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  • From: Jim West <jwest AT highland.net>
  • To: Yitzhak Sapir <yitzhaksapir AT gmail.com>, b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
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  • Subject: [b-hebrew] re: etymology
  • Date: Sun, 03 Apr 2005 21:12:48 -0400



Yitzhak Sapir wrote:

Karl Randolph wrote:


The Arabic is a different language from a millenium later.

Both roots are attested in Ugaritic.


Ugaritic post-dates the earliest Hebrew by centuries


Karl must have meant to say "pre-dates". He has to have meant that because the archaeological evidence only goes in that direction.

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Jim West

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