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  • From: Isaac Fried <if AT math.bu.edu>
  • To: "Ishinan" <ishinan AT comcast.net>
  • Cc: B-Hebrew List <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] English phonaesthetical cells in Hebrew (2)
  • Date: Sat, 20 Mar 2010 22:29:36 -0400

The assertion that the two-consonant Hebrew root gz meant 'cut' is an obvious fallacy. The Hebrew word GEZA(

גזע

'tree trunk', has clearly nothing to do with cutting or truncating.

Isaac Fried, Boston University

On Mar 20, 2010, at 10:10 PM, Ishinan wrote:

[VADIM CHERNY]- Thank you. It seems to me that whatever few phonaesthetical
clusters exist in English are imported from Hebrew (or W. Semitic, at any
rate) which is almost entirely phonaesthetical language: almost all Hebrew
three-letter roots share the meaning based on their two-letter root base.
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[ISHINAN]- A clarification: what seems to be a two-letter root base in
Semitic languages, technically is still considered a three-letter root base;
on account of the last letter's germination.

For example, applied to Hebrew, consider the following phonaesthetical [bt]
and [gz] clusters examples:

A- Strong's :1327 btt-h to break in pieces
B- Strong's : 1333 btq to cut in pieces.
C- Strong's : 1334 btr to chop up:--divide.

a- Strong's: 1494 gzz to cut off; to shear a flock or shave the hair; cut
off, shave,
b- Strong's: 1497 gzl to pluck off; specifically to flay, strip tear.
c- Strong's: 1501 gzm to devour.
d- Strong's: 1503 gz' to cut down (trees).
e- Strong's: 1504 gzr to cut down or off.

Note in above examples (A) and (a) btt and gzz respectively; both have
their last letter /t/ and /z/ geminated.

The same is noticed in the Classical Arabic cluster of "qT" yielding: qTT ,
qT`, qTm, qTl and qTf .

Note here in the case of the Arabic qTT, instead of writing the emphatic
letter T twice, as in English, Arabic places a w-shaped sign called saddah,
above it; an equivalent in Hebrew would be dages hazaq.

I hope this helps.

Yours truly

Ishinan Ishibashi

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