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Re: [b-hebrew] ובלחם

From: Isaac Fried <if AT math.bu.edu>
To: "J. Leake" <john.leake AT yahoo.co.uk>
Cc: "b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org" <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] ובלחם
Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2013 18:30:10 -0400

It is not clear to me what this "nexis" (or nexus) is. Also, how are "etymologically related words" related by a meaningless root. Are לחם LEXEM, 'bread, solid food', and מלחמה MI-LXAM-AH, 'combat', related?

Isaac Fried, Boston University

On Apr 11, 2013, at 4:16 PM, J. Leake wrote:

It's better to think of each 'root meaning' as being a nexis of etymologically related words, and you can have several of these nexes for each root.

[b-hebrew] ובלחם, Uri Hurwitz, 04/11/2013
- Re: [b-hebrew] ובלחם, Isaac Fried, 04/11/2013
- Re: [b-hebrew] ובלחם, J. Leake, 04/11/2013
  - Re: [b-hebrew] ובלחם, Isaac Fried, 04/11/2013
- Re: [b-hebrew] ובלחם, Ishnian, 04/12/2013