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  • From: Isaac Fried <if AT math.bu.edu>
  • To: K Randolph <kwrandolph AT gmail.com>
  • Cc: B-Hebrew List <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] RB
  • Date: Thu, 4 Nov 2010 20:46:36 -0400

1. What is this "etymological error"?
2. What are the "other possible meanings"? Is there, actually, only a finite number of "other possible meanings"?
3. What is this "evidence" against this two-letter root?
4. How can it not be a root when it is a root?

Isaac Fried, Boston University

On Nov 4, 2010, at 3:38 PM, K Randolph wrote:

Jim:

On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 6:49 AM, <JimStinehart AT aol.com> wrote:


1. RB is an archaic 2-consonant root that means “to be big; …


This whole article fails because it is based on an etymological error, there
are other possible meanings, even when accepting your presupposition against
all evidence that this is a two letter root. And the evidence is that this
is not a two letter root.

Karl W. Randolph.
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