Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Isaac Fried <if AT math.bu.edu>]

I would "reconstruct" צאן, 'flock' as TSEN, צֵא-ן, from צא,  
'go out', with the plural marker N, as in הן

Isaac Fried, Boston University

> On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 11:09 AM, Uri Hurwitz <uhurwitz AT yahoo.com>  
> wrote:
> >   There is evidence of a change from an early long A
> >  to a long O in what became biblical Hebrew. An example:
> >  "Tsan" (Ts = Tsadi) became "Tson", i.e. flocks of sheep
> >  or goats in BH. In both cases the vowel is long.
> >    Kol Tuv,
> >
> >   Uri Hurwitz                  Wilmington, VT
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