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  • From: "Yitzhak Sapir" <yitzhaksapir AT gmail.com>
  • To: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Anahnu - Anu
  • Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2006 11:39:54 +0200

On 11/14/06, David Kummerow wrote:

The diachronic development in Hebrew is actually even more complicated
as there is a third, albeit rare, form: nahnu (Gen 42:11; Exod 16:7, 8;
Num 32:32; Lam 3:42). J-M (1.120) suggest that this form is the more
ancient, the aleph of 'anahnu due to analogy with the 1cs. Certainly
'anu seems to be a phonologically reduced form of 'anahnu, and is the
form used in Mishnaic Hebrew.

Is the )anu form used in the Hebrew DSS? If not, what is the earliest
attestation of that form (aside from the Jeremiah occurence)?

Yitzhak Sapir




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