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  • From: Isaac Fried <if AT math.bu.edu>
  • To: Mike Burke <michaelgburk AT yahoo.com>
  • Cc: "b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org" <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] ענן and קסם
  • Date: Tue, 14 May 2013 08:39:06 -0400

The point is that one needs to be very careful about relating Hebrew words "horizontally", namely, מעונן M-ONEN, 'conjurer', and ענן ANAN, 'cloud', may have nothing in common, the same way that חציר XACIYR, 'hay', and חצר XACER, 'courtyard', have nothing in common, except for their common root XCR (a variant of קצר QCR), 'cut, partition'.

Isaac Fried, Boston University

On May 13, 2013, at 10:05 PM, Mike Burke wrote:

So we really have no idea what the term means?




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