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Re: [b-hebrew] elephants or ivory

From: "Stoney Breyer" <stoneyb AT touchwoodcreative.com>
To: "'Yitzhak Sapir'" <yitzhaksapir AT gmail.com>, <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] elephants or ivory
Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2008 12:22:17 -0500

>> 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?

Shammy

Stoney Breyer
Writer/Touchwood Creative

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Re: [b-hebrew] elephants or ivory, Yaakov Stein, 08/20/2008
- Re: [b-hebrew] elephants or ivory, K Randolph, 08/21/2008
  - Re: [b-hebrew] elephants or ivory, Yitzhak Sapir, 08/22/2008
    - Re: [b-hebrew] elephants or ivory, Stoney Breyer, 08/22/2008
    - Re: [b-hebrew] elephants or ivory, K Randolph, 08/22/2008