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  • From: Isaac Fried <if AT math.bu.edu>
  • To: "<pporta AT oham.net>" <pporta AT oham.net>
  • Cc: b-hebrew Hebrew <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Genesis 31: 47 - Suffix -UT
  • Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2007 07:35:56 -0500

Pere,

Here is another Hebrew word to admire

SAPR-U-T-I-U-T-EY-N-U

containing identity markers [aka personal pronouns] galore. It is in "Israeli Hebrew" as you prefer to call it, yet I believe King David, and even Moses before him, would have understood it right away in its relation to the root SPR.

Isaac Fried, Boston University
On Nov 28, 2007, at 12:05 AM, <pporta AT oham.net> <pporta AT oham.net> wrote:

Your argument is very clear to me, except that I still don't see HOW
the particle, to use your terminology, -UT turns a noun into an
abstract noun.

Isaac Fried, Boston University

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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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