Peter:
I started writing this off list to another person, but then realized that
this goes to the reason I brought up the question in the first place.
Is the Arabic the only recognized cognate language similarity to BLG? ...
... With all the Hebrew uses of the root being pre-Exilic, making recordedIndeed we cannot be sure that the meaning is the same. But in most cases this kind of meaning change is either subtle or in rather obviously explainable directions.
Arabic uses well over a thousand years later as well as in a different
language, how far can we trust the Arabic term to have the same meaning? Even
in contemporanious uses Hebrew and Aramaic terms sometimes had very different
meanings, Arabic, being so much later as well, is even further from Hebrew.
Already Mishnaic Hebrew shows marked differences with Biblical Hebrew, and
that was earlier than Arabic.
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