To: "Biblical Hebrew" <b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
Subject: Re: PS And God saw that it was good
Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2002 11:49:27 +1100
| I know. But I wonder where originally, far far back, the two words
| came from. There must be a common something.
Not necessarily. It's probably more an accident of history that TB( and TWB
have two letters the
same. Not a single root (as far as I have encountered) has ever accrued an
extra `ayin. I'm sure
the case is that TWB was originally a 2-letter root (TB), but TB( was always
a 3-letter root.
There are numerous instances of words with some identical root letters, but
very different
meanings: