Subject: Re: Hebrew philology (somewhat off topic)
Date: Sun, 5 Aug 2001 02:50:23 EDT
In a message dated 8/4/01 9:59:45 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
06peterson AT cua.edu writes:
Does anyone
know the Hebrew equivalent(s) of "philology," "philologist," etc.?
According to "The Complete English-Hebrew Dictionary" by Reuben Alcalay,
philologist is "balshan" and philology "balshanut". These Hebrew words are
also translated as linguist/linguistics and etymologist/etymology.
Interestingly, "bilshen" is a verb meaning philologize. An alternative to
"balshan", of course, is -- you guessed it -- "filolog".
Hayyim