Cc: Biblical Hebrew <b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
Subject: RE: cafe taHat soda
Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2001 01:08:00 -0400
shalom Liz,
While reading today's paper I remembered your note on "taHat".
(LF:)
>Once tho I told
>the waiter that I wanted tay Ham taHat ha Soda (that I had
>originally ordered). He brought me both the tea and the soda. I
>learned only later that taHat does not mean "instead of" in
>Modern Hebrew.
Actually, "taHat" needs contextual clues for it to be understood "not
literally"
but in its metaphorical extensions. Modern Hebrew shares other common
relator-words in this semantic domain, like "bimqom", "temurat", "Helef",
"biglal".
Anyway, in today's paper:
"[hem] omrim sheheHliTu levatter `al ezraHutam ha-tsarfatit
velidrosh ezraHut yisraelit taHteha."
they were saying that they decided to give up their French citizenship
and to seek Israeli citizenship in its place.