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  • From: Isaac Fried <if AT math.bu.edu>
  • To: Uzi Silber <uzisilber AT gmail.com>
  • Cc: b-hebrew list <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] The root $DD
  • Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2012 11:35:20 -0500

You are in the right direction, except that I am not sure where you got "thieves, lovers, businessmen, friends", and above all "shuddering teats".

Isaac Fried, Boston University

On Jan 17, 2012, at 10:32 AM, Uzi Silber wrote:

Yitzhak Fried

so could it be that the lucky Paleolithic Semite who bestowed upon
Ashdod its name for eternity, a name accepted by all the locals, that
this Semite had been moved by a landscape dominated by a shuddering
teat-like feature, adorned by flowers (dudaim) and populated by
thieves and lovers, devious businessmen and friends?

Looks like cities haven't changed much.

Uzi Silber






On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 9:53 AM, Isaac Fried <if AT math.bu.edu> wrote:
The shorter form $D is a variant of

DD, ZD, YD, SD CD, $D, TD

דד, זד, יד, סד, צד, שד, תד

From DD we have:
DAD, 'breast, teat, bulge, nipple', DADAH, 'move unsteadily and
waveringly, shake and tilt
from side to side' (compare: תעתע, צעצע, טאטא, זעזע,
שעשע), DUDA, 'sprout' (compare the
modern תות TUT), DUD, 'pot, teat-like basket', DOD, 'side relation,
consort, partner, YDIYD'.

From ZD we have:
ZED (also $ED), 'deviant, devious', ZAD-ON, 'intention,
premeditation, purpose'.

From YD we have:
YAD, 'hand, a thrusting outward bodily limb, jutting out appendage,
extremity'.

From SD we have:
SAD, 'log', SOD, SID, bundle, collection, accumulation'.

From CD we have:
CAD, 'side, extension, accumulation '.

From $D we have:
$AD,'teat', $OD, 'collection, accumulation'

From TD we have:
YATED, 'peg, nail'.

Isaac Fried, Boston University


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