Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Isaac Fried <if AT math.bu.edu>]

This is not entirely clear to me. Do you mean שלך $ELKA, 'yours', which in my opinion is the compound של-אכה $EL-AKAH, where AKAH is a variant of אתה ATAH; and שלכם $ELAKEM, 'yours', which in my opinion is the compound של-אכם $EL-AKEM, where AKEM is a variant of אתם ATEM, that is by itself the compound את-הם AT-HEM?

Isaac Fried, Boston University

On Jul 24, 2013, at 12:07 AM, Jonathan Mohler wrote:

Let me digress one last time.  This kind of morphophonemic development in my opinion is strong indication that the 2ms ending -CHA and 2mp ending -CHEM.  Most likely something like -CHA --> *-CHAYIM --> -CHEM