Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Yitzhak Sapir" <yitzhaksapir AT gmail.com>]

On 1/5/07, Yitzhak Sapir wrote:

> lambda as the letter name probably originally was pronunced is also a
> qatl form.  The Hebrew malmad- would seem to suggest how a noun
> constructed from the verb would have looked like in Hebrew.  I agree
> that lamed is the best example of a noun that is related to a verb, but
> the fact remains that of the clearly identifiable letter names, most letter
> names are basic words with no verb.  If we, however, ask what a
> segholate of a final-y root would have looked like, we can find an example
> in xaci (xcy) "half" (< *xicy according to HALOT) from xch.  HALOT also
> claims this is a verb derived from the noun.  In this case, we should have
> expected cavi (cvy) or something of the sort, not cav.

Perhaps more appropriate examples would be the roots dwh and the word
davay (dwy) or the root lwh and the word levi (lwy) (perhaps).

Yitzhak Sapir