In a message dated 10/6/2004 9:39:41 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
hholmyard AT ont.com writes:
> >I don't know how much relevancy can be attributed--but "ink" is a personal
> >pronoun in Egyptian. It means "I am" and is only seen at the start
> >of a clause.
>
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> HH: In Hebrew )NKY does not have to be the first word of a clause.
> See Genesis 3:10 and 4:9.
>
One doesn't count preliminary qualifiers as "And he said", does one? Isn't
the statement of the person a clause in itself? Well, my rules of grammar
may
be rusty, but in Egyptian, this independent pronoun would certainly also be
followed by a qualifier like "Dd.n=f" or "he said" (in the case of a male) .
The pronoun was first written as "nwki" and then later as "ink", "nwk" and
"inwk". Sir Alan Gardiner wrote: "This series (of independent pronouns) is
closely connected with the personal pronouns in Hebrew and Arabic."
Marianne Luban
[b-hebrew] knowledge of language versus language use (was Pronoun )nky in Judg 6:8)
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