Biblical Hebrew Forum

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

isaac,

let me remind you that the thread was "L=high". see also:

         GAB, GEB, GABAH, GBR, GBYR, GBWRH, KBYR, TMYR, TMR, TMRWT, HTMR, 
NYS), NSQ, HMRY), RWM, MRWM, RMH.

where is the "L=high"?

nir cohen

ps moving to your favorite theme, GLGL:

the story of "one heap up and one heap down" making a circle is a fantastic 
fairytail which you 
circulate regularly.

1. what is a "heap down"? is there a single culture in the world which 
defines "circle" as "two half-circles"?

2. the use of "glgl" as "a wheel/circle", which you presuppose is, as far as 
i know, not biblical, perhaps
restricted to modern hebrew.

3. compare with tPtP, (P(P, DGDG, DPDP, MCMC, $P$P, tLtL, t$t$, LBLB, QLQL, 
RPRP, R$R$, M$M$, MLML, CMCM, GMGM, 
CPCP, P$P$, DRDR, CLCL, XRXR, N(N(, NDND,....$L$L!

in all of them the phonetic repetition hints at an etymological repetition 
(but not doubling!) of the action. few of them, if at
all, are biblical.

4. the biblical construction is different: GLL, SLL, HTPLL, MLL, PZZ, MWtt, 
BRR, Rtt, XGG, XQQ, YLL, $WBB, SBB, RDD, 
$TT, $Wtt, MDD, X$$, T$$, ($$, GPP, KTT,QCC, $PWP, doubling the second root 
letter.

nir cohen
 
On Wed, 15 Aug 2012 22:15:07 -0400, Isaac Fried wrote
> GALGAL גלגל 'wheel', is GAL-GAL, one GAL, 'mound, wave', up and one GAL 
> down to make a circle. The L in GAL, as in TEL, 'hill', indicates 'up'.  
> The root G is the core element of גאה GAAH, 'lifted, hurled', as in Ex. 
> 15:1.
> From GAAH we have גא GE, 'proud, haughty', as in Is 16:6. Also גאות GEUT, 
> 'high tide', as in Is. 9.17.
> 
> Isaac Fried, Boston University
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