Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Nir cohen - Prof. Mat." <nir AT ccet.ufrn.br>]

hi,

barzel is attested in biblical aramaic as parzel. pirzul in hebrew means
iron hoofing, a blacksmith job. i reckon that this, plus plowing, were the
first uses of iron. my etymology for iron is therefore: 

parsa (hoof) --> parzel --> barzel

and dont ask me where the final l came from, i just dont know.

clearly it is not the other way, namely, parzel --> parsa, since 
parsa is very well explained by "spread". now the question remains,
what is the exact relation between parsa (hoof) and parash/paras (horse).

nir



 On Wed, 09 Mar 2011 02:39:06 -0500, b-hebrew-request wrote
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