Biblical Hebrew Forum

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

On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 9:24 AM, Isaac Fried wrote:
> It is conceivable that the ending -AI as in XALON-AI, 'windows', of
>  Jeremiah 22:14 is indeed a remnant of a pluralization method by a

So far so good.  For more information read and follow up the pdf here:
https://lists.ibiblio.org/sympa/arc/b-hebrew/2007-November/034593.html

All the rest of Isaac's message is his own personal theory, which is
contrary to concepts in linguistics and is not accepted by any
serious linguist.

Yitzhak Sapir

>  repeated I-I = HI)-HI). Such pluralization appears to be still in use
>  in the construct form XALON-E-Y. A similar double, or even treble,
>  identity marker exists also in $ADAY = $AD-HI)-)ANI, 'my breasts',
>  and $AD-E-Y-NU, 'our breasts'.
>  The root $D of $AD-AI is a member of the root family
>  DD [DAD, 'breast', DOD, 'adult']
>  ZD [ZED, ZAD-ON, 'malice, deviation'. See Ezekiel 7:10]
>  YD [YAD, 'hand']
>  SD [SAD, 'branch, trunk, stocks'. See Job 13:27. SADYIN, 'sheet',
>  SOD, 'group, company council'. See Genesis 49:6. SADE), 'field, hill?']
>  CD [CAD, 'side']
>  $D [$AD, $OD, 'breast, accumulation'. See Isaiah 60:16 and Amos 3:10]
>  $T [$OT, 'whip, branch', $ITAH, 'a shooty tree, Acacia?'. In spoken
>  Hebrew $ITAH is 'method']
>  $T [$ET, 'buttocks', $TI 'yarn warp']
>  YTD [YATED, 'peg']
>  all essentially meaning 'extended, elevated, diverging, protruding'.
>
>  Isaac Fried, Boston University
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