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  • From: Petr Tomasek <tomasek AT etf.cuni.cz>
  • To: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Befuddled by NGD
  • Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2007 17:15:23 +0200

> You shouldn't expect to get it. Hebrew, like all real human languages,
> is generally arbitrary. Even if there was originally a semantic link
> between NGD "opposite" and NGD "tell", that link is not necessarily at
> all visible in the stage of the language we see in the Bible. There are
> many things in language which you just have to accept and learn, not try
> to explain.

Exactly. And aditionally be aware, that NGD in hebrew could potentially
(I haven't checked the lexica) present two different semitic roots:
N-G-D and N-G-D_ ...

Petr Tomasek

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