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  • From: "Yitzhak Sapir" <yitzhaksapir AT gmail.com>
  • To: "b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org" <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] elephants or ivory
  • Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2008 15:57:29 +0000

Dear Karl,

Can you provide other cases, not just in Hebrew but any language
family you choose, where a word in some language denotes an
inanimate luxury item when its cognates denote wild animals?

Yitzhak Sapir




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