Biblical Hebrew Forum

[James Christian <jc.bhebrew AT googlemail.com>]

With my experience with the Slavonik languages I have seen quite a few
parallels. The use of the word '*inka' to mean both woman in general and
wife in more specific contexts e.g. 'moya *inka'. The use of the word
'div4ina' in its general sense of girl (as in young female) and in its
idiomatic sense of virgin, unmarried female e.g. 'kolu ia byla we devy4ka'
roughly is equivalent to 'Before I was married' while literally meaning
'when I was still a girl'.

While I have seen these phenomenon I'm not sure if this was just the natural
evolution of the language or if this was the direct result of religious use
of language forcing the evolution of the language in a particular direction.
In any case, forgive my ignorance but who were the Khazar?

James Christian

2010/2/3 Vadim Cherny <vadimcherny AT gmail.com>

> Russian and Ukrainian correlations with Hebrew are expected, given the
> major influence of the Khazar culture.
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> See, having know Ukrainian, you have no trouble understanding the concept
> which presents a problem for scholars who think in Roman-Germanic languages.
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> Vadim Cherny
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> On Feb 3, 2010, at 3:22 AM, James Christian wrote:
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>  Hi,
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>> As for weqatal, it is about highly assured events. Again, the
>> construction of "Exclamation + PT" is common in Russian for very
>> strong commands (ну, сделал, быстро!).
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>> Interesting. We have that in Ukrainian as well "zrobuv bigom!". We have
>> something like it in English although not exactly the same word for word
>> "Get it done quickly!" rather than "Do it quickly!".
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>> James Christian
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