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  • From: Vadim Cherny <vadimcherny AT gmail.com>
  • To: James Christian <jc.bhebrew AT googlemail.com>
  • Cc: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] BH verbal system
  • Date: Wed, 3 Feb 2010 13:36:06 +0200

Khazars were a large Hebrew-speaking tribe which controlled most of what is now European Russia and Ukraine. There are plenty of Hebrew Khazar inscriptions in Kiev's archeological levels. Steinberg's Hebrew- Russian dictionary documents a great many semantic parallels.

Vadim Cherny


On Feb 3, 2010, at 1:29 PM, James Christian wrote:

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.

See, having know Ukrainian, you have no trouble understanding the concept which presents a problem for scholars who think in Roman- Germanic languages.


Vadim Cherny



On Feb 3, 2010, at 3:22 AM, James Christian wrote:

Hi,


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!).

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!".

James Christian








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