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Re: [b-hebrew] ובלחם

From: Jonathan Mohler <jonathan.mohler AT gmail.com>
To: Isaac Fried <if AT math.bu.edu>
Cc: B-Hebrew Hebrew <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>, Mike Burke <michaelgburk AT yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] ובלחם
Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2013 20:16:20 -0500

Not really sure where you're going with that, other than that linguistically one is a metathesis of the other. But as John Leake pointed out to me, my theory doesn't hold, since LXM is bread in all the cognate languages.

On Apr 11, 2013, at 5:14 PM, Isaac Fried wrote:

In other words, you are saying that לחם LAXAM is a variant of הלם HALAM, but what about חלם XALAM, 'dream, reverie'?

Isaac Fried, Boston University

On Apr 11, 2013, at 5:42 PM, Jonathan Mohler wrote:

My theory is that there is only one root, להם. This original root is "to beat," hence "to fight." The idea of beating dough or kneading leads to the noun, lechem, bread.

Re: [b-hebrew] ובלחם , (continued)
- Re: [b-hebrew] ובלחם, Isaac Fried, 04/10/2013
- Re: [b-hebrew] ובלחם, Jonathan Mohler, 04/11/2013
  - Re: [b-hebrew] ובלחם, Isaac Fried, 04/11/2013
    - Re: [b-hebrew] ובלחם, Jonathan Mohler, 04/11/2013
      - Re: [b-hebrew] ובלחם, Isaac Fried, 04/11/2013
        
        Re: [b-hebrew] ובלחם, Jonathan Mohler, 04/12/2013
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    - Re: [b-hebrew] ובלחם, Jonathan Mohler, 04/11/2013
  - Re: [b-hebrew] ובלחם, George Athas, 04/14/2013
    - Re: [b-hebrew] ובלחם, Jonathan Mohler, 04/14/2013
      - Re: [b-hebrew] ובלחם, Isaac Fried, 04/14/2013
    - Re: [b-hebrew] ובלחם, K Randolph, 04/15/2013
- Re: [b-hebrew] ובלחם, john . leake, 04/11/2013
  - Re: [b-hebrew] ובלחם, Isaac Fried, 04/11/2013
- Re: [b-hebrew] ובלחם, john . leake, 04/15/2013