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  • From: Yigal Levin <leviny1 AT mail.biu.ac.il>
  • To: b-hebrew <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] chalal - perforate/pierce?/KRH
  • Date: Fri, 07 Sep 2007 06:15:12 +0300

Isaac,

Such playing with the shapes of the letters might look impressive in modern Hebrew (actually originally Aramaic) block letters, but Hebrew was originally written using the older ("Pheonician") forms of the letters, most of which are different enough so that such games don not work.


Yigal Levin



No, it's a different letter, and they are different roots, those with
a kaf and those with a chet


Shoshana,

You are right, but for diversity there is a kaf and there is a xet.
The letter kaf is merely the letter xet turned upon its side. A he is
a xet with a disconnected left leg, a qof is a he with an elongated
leg, and gimel is a cross legged he.

Isaac Fried, Boston University






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