Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Uri Hurwitz <uhurwitz AT yahoo.com>]

   Hi Nir,

   You wrote:
   
  > most nouns in most ancient languages do not have a proven source within 
the dialect, nor can be established as loan words. <

   On what grounds did you make this statement?

   Further you stated:


  > in hebrew i will mention  $ULXAN (table), KOBA (hat), TEBA (arc), E$ 
(fire), NKD (grandson), NYN (great grandson), ZRT (pinky), BHN (toe), R($ 
(head), YD (hand),  )BN (stone)  
etc. only by cross-reference with other dialects can this be validated.<

   Here you lost me completely: some of your examples are common Semitic, 
e.g.  The words for head, and hand. Further, did you ever ask yourself why E$ 
(Fire), is feminine in Hebrew? Look it up in Akkadian where it is Ishatu - 
the f. marker 'T' is very much there.

   Nothing to add about the linguisticallly shaky ladder. Shaky only 
linguistically, we saw how well it served Jacob.

   Uri Hurwitz