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Either the text I am using is not that good, or $GY) is spelled both ways, as
well as $YX, $QD, $TM and a couple of others that I can?t think of right away.
As for the sin : samekh crossovers, the only one I remember is the one
indicating dialectal pronunciation in Judges. Can you give some examples?
As for the example of CXQ : $XQ , are we dealing with a pronunciation shift
that was reflected in the writing because Hebrew, at that time, was spelled
phonetically? With only two exceptions, CXQ as a verb or noun was used only
in early books (for the most part, the name Isaac continued to be spelled
with a tsada), while $XQ was consistantly used later. The date of that shift
appears to have been during the time of the judges.
... Third, there are words apparently from the same root, but in one formWell, these have apparent cognates with distinct forms in Arabic and Aramaic, so your conclusion that they are from the same root seems to be premature.
written with a sin (e.g. ?siym? to place) and another form with a shin (e.g.
?sham? there, that place). ...
Just because there are cognates differently pronounced in Aramaic and Arabic
does not rule out that they were from the same root in Hebrew.
There are a few other similar examples, but because the font on my computer
does not visibly distinguish between sin and shin, I don?t recognize them
just by looking at them and I don?t remember which ones they are.
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