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  • From: "Nir cohen - Prof. Mat." <nir AT ccet.ufrn.br>
  • To: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] 0
  • Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2011 16:36:19 -0300

david,

i guess PSS is your "modern" version of BH PS/PSH?

also, i am not sure that EFES and AFSAYIM is used in BH to denote
"nothing", although this is the current use of EFES. maybe they meant
something like "fringe", as in the expression EFES KACEHU or MEY
AFSAYIM. although i admit this can still be related to "vanishing".

EFES also meant "just,but,though" which i find not too related to
"vanish".

egg or hen? perhaps the basic etymology is not the verb PS/PSS but
the noun PAS which means a very thin line, as in joseph's pyjjamas.

>
> /ePheS (???) "nothing, none, zero" from PaSaS (???) "to vanish."
>

nir cohen




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