Biblical Hebrew Forum

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

What I have said is that I tend to think that corresponding to

את, אתה, אתם AT, ATAH, ATEM, 

there was in use, in some corner of Hebrew

אך, אכה, אכם AK, AKAH, AKEM 

(a hint of which we find in אנוכי ANOKIY and אנחנו ANAXNU), that survived 

only as a "suffix" personal pronoun (PP) to express the "genitive", 

to wit, אמך IMKA = EM-AKAH, 'your mother'. 

Another fossil is the אתי ATIY, instead of אני ANIY, left frozen as a "suffix" in the 

compound שברתי $ABARTIY = $ABAR-ATIY, 'I have broken'.

Isaac Fried, Boston University

On Jul 24, 2013, at 5:20 PM, Jonathan Mohler wrote:

I don't have a theory for how the self-standing ATAH would engender the suffix -KAH.