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  • From: "Yitzhak Sapir" <yitzhaksapir AT gmail.com>
  • To: b-hebrew <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] We and us
  • Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2006 14:34:18 +0200

On 11/12/06, JP vd Giessen (FOL) <janpieter AT giessen.fol.nl> wrote:
I always thought anoki was an Egyptian loanword (see also Legend
of the Jews:
http://search.ldslibrary.com/3821135) but maybe I'm wrong.

The Hebrew )anoki is the first person pronoun and it is not a
borrowed word from Egyptian. Rather, Egyptian and Hebrew,
along with Akkadian, Arabic, Aramaic, Ugaritic, Moabite, and
Canaanite all had cognate first person pronouns. The Afroasiatic
pronoun is reconstructed as: )ana:ku. -a:ku is the first person
suffix, and in Central Semitic (including most dialects of Arabic),
this -k- evolved to -t-. Later in Canaanite, the (now) -tu suffix
became the familiar -ti of the first person conjugations. The -o-
in the middle of this word is the result of the Canaanite shift
a: > o. See also here for comments on )ani and )anoki
https://listhost.uchicago.edu/pipermail/ane/2002-September/003222.html
https://listhost.uchicago.edu/pipermail/ane/2002-September/003232.html
https://listhost.uchicago.edu/pipermail/ane/2002-September/003273.html
https://listhost.uchicago.edu/pipermail/ane/2002-September/003275.html

Yitzhak Sapir




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