Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Vadim Cherny <vadimcherny AT gmail.com>]

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