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Not necessarily. Consider English “corn”, originally and still in Britain a generic, which became associated with a newly discovered specific type (also known as maize) in America. Similarly BARZEL could have been an original generic which became attached to a newly invented specific.
Peter Kirk
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In a message dated 8/30/2002 9:14:44 AM Eastern Daylight
Time, Yigal-Levin AT utc.edu writes: Another thought: while I don't doubt that "barzel"
means "iron", could it
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