Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Arnaud Fournet" <fournet.arnaud AT wanadoo.fr>]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: Isaac Fried
To: Arnaud Fournet
Cc: Hebrew List
Sent: Sunday, October 31, 2010 3:59 PM
Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Piel Participles of ayin-waw-yod


All I can say is that ברא appears to me a variant of פרא, פרה, פרע, 
'disperse, scatter, strew, disseminate'.


Isaac Fried, Boston University
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How is this relevant even marginally??   ??
As far as the first nanosecond is concerned?

By the way,
as it happens that I am a macro-comparative linguist,
I agree that Semitic, and this includes in my opinion Ancient Hebrew (with 
all due respect to your Bostonesque omni-pan-chronic 
changes-never-happened-nor-started  once-and-for-all  Hebrew), did not have 
a clear phonological distinction between voiced and voiceless phonemes.

There's quite a lot of data, in classical Arabic as well, to support that 
conclusion...

So I would tend to agree that you are putting the finger on a real issue.
Voiced and voiceless phonemes do not really contrast in Semitic.
Fully agreed (as far as I'm concerned).

If you have anything else to say, this is not a problem with me.
I'm really sorry if this is "all [you] can say",
I disagree.There's a lot more to say.

Kisseez
(soft ones, as you can't stand harder ones apparently).

A.F
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On Oct 31, 2010, at 10:26 AM, Arnaud Fournet wrote:




Maybe the real problem starts with the second or third "nanosecond"??


At the first nanosecond, the hypothetical initial state remains the same, is 
it not??


Apparently 3,500 years is not enough to cause any synchronic change.


How much long is a "nano-second" in your personal time-frame???


Please explain.


A.F