To: Biblical Hebrew <b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
Subject: Re: "Yemen"
Date: Wed, 10 Feb 1999 19:43:43 +0200
Thank you Peter_Kirk AT SIL.ORG for your letter 0n 10:49 10/02/99 -0500. You
wrote:
>"Yemen" is spelt with "ya".
>Clearly the root y-m-n means "right" (side) as in Hebrew.
>Peter Kirk
And ,of course, "Yamin" means "South" [when the observer is "oriented"
facing the East ], which is it's direction relative to the land of Israel.