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  • From: "Nir cohen - Prof. Mat." <nir AT ccet.ufrn.br>
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  • Subject: [b-hebrew] abrHm or abRhm?
  • Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2013 23:05:20 -0300

yigal, uri,

concerning abraham's name, and the H-infix hypothesis
one direction is to examine the general use of similar
infixes in BH.

a paper in "Morphology" (eds Booij, Ehrmann, Mugdan, de Gruyter
2000 ~pp 547-52) of an unidentified author made a typological
study of many languages, to the effect that an infix may imitate a
corresponding affix but its meaning may be more "intrinsic" than the
affix. in our case, a candidate may be the definite article H- (??).
moreover, the infix formation is a relative of the doubling formation.
in other words, an H-infix may be tantamount of a doubling of a vowel A.

consider the following examples of mostly BH infixes/doubles.
i did not check each of them carefully - some may be based on
wrong associations.

1. RB --> RHB,HRHYB HTRBRB, RBYBYM, RBBH and RBU)
2. NWR,NR,)WR (light) NHRH,NHYR (illumination); NHWR (aramaic)
3. BR BHYR; BRWR
4. ML MWHL;
5. ?? CHL CLYL, CLCL, CLWL
6. MR (aramaic: MR(H), arabic: MRH) MWHR
7. T$ HTY)$.
8. BWR B(R
9. BWR B)R
10. BRY (aramaic) B)R
11. ??? R($ R$R$
12. RM R(M, R(MH
13. YD Y(D, NW(D
14. CR C(R,
15. ??? L(G LGLG
16. L$ L(S
17. MK M(K
18. KYB K)B
19. (BL?) HBL, BHLH
20. (D (hebrew) $HYD (arabic)
21. $Q $HQ $Q$Q
22. BW$ HB)Y$ BW$$
23. Y$R $(R $R$RT
24. QR, KRH $(RH
25. YKL KHL (aramaic)
26. GWR G(R
27. ??? G(L GYLWL
28. QM Q)M (aramaic)
29. QD Q(D (arabic)
30 NPQ (aramaic) PHWQ
31 DWY/DWH D)B
32 )BH, )WH )HB
33 ??? R(C RCC, RCWC
34 NWY N)H, N)WH

can this provide a plausible basis for a discussion on the
H in abraham's name? (i have no similar comment to make
on jim's R-hypothesis).

nir cohen

PS my own name provides another example:
35 KN, MKYN KHN YKWNN




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