Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Ishnian" <ishinan AT comcast.net>]

Yigal Levin wrote: The root CLA is once example. In Aramaic it means "to 
pray". In Hebrew a homonymous root means "to roast". Which is a good reason 
to pray.


Ishinan: Actually the root  S.ly  (صلي ) in Arabic, is identical to the 
Hebrew sense of roasting , while S.lw  (صلو   yields the sense of praying 
exactly like the Aramaic.

Best regards

Ishinan Ishibashi