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

I am sorry, but in my humble opinion, "proto-Semitic" is a legend. A  
very deep Ayin may indeed come close to a G or even an R.

Isaac Fried, Boston University

On Dec 9, 2010, at 10:41 PM, Uri Hurwitz wrote:

>   Sorry, these are two different roots. The first is
>  indeed (LM.
>    The second is derived from the root GHayin LM.
>  The proto-Semitic Ghayin was written already in the
>  ancient paleo-Hebrew script with the same letter that
>  served the letter (YIN.
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>   Compare the name of the city (azah. To this day
>  the ancient pronounciation is preserved in the English
>  spelling Ghaza, and, of course, in normal Arabic
>  spoken and written use where it retains a separate letter.
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>     Uri Hurwitz                              Greay Neck, NY
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> As I have already observed the word OLAM ( עולם ) is of the root
> (LM ( עלם ), which certainly can not mean 'hidden, secrete,
> conceal'. To wit: this is also the root of ELEM and ALMAH ( עלם,
> עלמה ), 'young adults', which are not hidden, and have nothing to
> hide.
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> Isaac Fried, Boston University
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