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  • From: Yigal Levin <leviny1 AT mail.biu.ac.il>
  • To: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] באר
  • Date: Sun, 02 Jan 2011 01:46:33 +0200

Actually I do, but I also recognize that not all words that look the same
have identical origins. As the webpage that you cited mentioned, a lot of
rabbinic midrash is based on similarity between words. That's fine for
midrash – but not sound linguistics.



Yigal Levin



From: fred burlingame [mailto:tensorpath AT gmail.com]
Sent: Sunday, January 02, 2011 1:41 AM
To: Yigal Levin
Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] באר



Thanks for your comments.



It appears that you don't subscribe to the verb root theory of the language
.... at least in this instance.



http://www.jewfaq.org/root.htm



regards



fred burlingame

On Sat, Jan 1, 2011 at 4:20 PM, Yigal Levin <leviny1 AT mail.biu.ac.il> wrote:

Okay. To answer the question, B)R "well" is obviously related to BoR, "hole,
water-hole, cistern". B)R "to explain" seems unrelated. The two are simply
homonyms, of which there are some in any language.



Yigal Levin







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