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

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
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> 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
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> 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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