In a message dated 10/21/2004 4:36:48 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
peterkirk AT qaya.org writes:
> >Is the Arabic the only recognized cognate language similarity to BLG? ...
> >
>
> It is the only one mentioned in BDB, which was all I claimed before.
> Someone else gave further information from HALOT. I have now just opened
> up HALOT, and there is a mention there of an Egyptian possible cognate
> BRG, no meaning given, and a suggested link with BLQ which is "to
> appear" in Syriac, "to dazzle" in Mandaean(?), and "to gleam" in Arabic.
>
>
The Egyptian term is "b3rg3"--to give light or illumine. From the way it is
written in te glyphs, it doesn't look like a cognate but rather group
writing,
that is transliteration of a Semitic term. That it contains /r/ is
insignificant. The Egyptian graphic system contained no "l", so /r/ does
duty for
both.