Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Peter Kirk <peter AT qaya.org>]

On 08/07/2006 20:48, JAMES CHRISTIAN READ wrote:
> Yitzhak wrote:
> *tiha:m; "sea"; Akk. tamtum, tia:mat, Arab taham "land sloping down by the
> sea", tiha:mat "(geographical name for a coastal plain)"; Heb thom; Sy
> thoma (loanword); Ug taha:matu
> END QUOTE
>
> JCR: Thanks for showing how they could be cognates. My 
> difficulty lied in accounting for the 'h' of tehom and 
> you seem to have adequately done so and shown similar 
> patterns which I have omitted in my reply for brevities 
> sake. I can now see what you were saying.
>
>   
It seems that the Akkadians, like the French and the Cockneys, dropped 
their h's, or at least didn't write them. I think this is a general rule 
for Akkadian. Actually the same is true of Greek, if you look at Greek 
transliterations of Hebrew names, e.g. ABRAAM for Hebrew 'ABRAHAM.

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