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  • From: Uri Hurwitz <uhurwitz AT yahoo.com>
  • To: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: [b-hebrew] third person
  • Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2012 19:58:11 -0800 (PST)


  That's right, Will. Solid evidence in Semitics is always a better basis
for one's opinion than personal speculation . The latter has become more and
more the norm in this list.

As for the Arab equivalent to the Heb. /oti//otkha/ etc, I know off hand
only the form "Ayyaka"  ( a Shaddah in the Y); it is in one of the first
verses of the Quran. In the earlier Phoenician there are quite a few examples
of  /)t/ , /)yt/.

   Uri Hurwitz



>  I don't think it's tenable to derive (e.g.) אתה (/'atta:/) from את + הו
(/'e:t/ + /hu:/).  The pronoun /atta:/ corresponds to forms in other
Semitic languages that have an internal /nt/, such as the Arabic form
ﺍﻧﺖ (/'anta/), whereas forms such as אתי (/'o:ti:/) pretty much exclude
the possibility of the preposition /'e:t/ having an original /nt/.  (We
would expect to see a form with a daghesh in the taw if that were so.)

--
Will Parsons
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  • [b-hebrew] third person, Uri Hurwitz, 11/14/2012

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