Biblical Hebrew Forum

[K Randolph <kwrandolph AT gmail.com>]

Ishinan:

On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 8:50 PM, Ishinan <ishinan AT comcast.net> wrote:
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> Proto- Semitic * lqH.  has the primary sense of impregnation. Hence the
> Hebrew "lqkh" does not mean to rape or to take in marriage, but simply to
> impregnate.  In other Semitic languages the term can also be used in the
> sense of fecundating palm trees.
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> Ishinan Ishibashi
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> This looks like a perfect example of the etymological fallacy. What’s
worse, it is taking from a language whose very existence is speculative, not
attested.

It also shows the fallacy of relying on cognate languages, as their meanings
can be very different than Hebrew.

Karl W. Randolph.