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  • From: David Kummerow <farmerjoeblo AT hotmail.com>
  • To: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Genesis 31: 47 - Suffix -UT
  • Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2007 16:25:56 +1100

Exactly.

There is no linguistic sense in seeing -ut here as simultaneously referring to the addressee and some third-person referent. This is, after all, a morpheme which may be attached to nouns. BH verbal inflections and suffixes are of a different category, where a verb may be inflected for person-number-gender as well as take an optional suffix. Depending on the binyan, verbal inflections are generally actor/agent and verbal suffixes are undergoer/patient. However, even here, no single morpheme simultaneously refers to the addressee as well as a third-person referent. There is no evidence for the combining or multi-combining of personal pronouns.

Regards,
David Kummerow.



Melek, king ---------> malkut (malk-ut), royalty (1Ch 29:25)

How can this -ut be explained as a combining of personal pronouns?

For confirmation: in Israeli Hebrew.... there are plenty of cases where a final -ut means an abstract concept:

1. adom, red ---------> admut, redness
2. pikeaH, seer (Ex 4:11) ----------> pikHut, cleverness
3. sefer, book ---------> sifrut, literature
etc. etc.

Pere Porta
Barcelona (Spain)








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