Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Fw: Human Sacrifice - Semantic Domain
Date: Sun, 23 Oct 2005 00:38:40 +0100
On 22/10/2005 21:59, Yigal Levin wrote:
Dear Jack,
I like your metaphor. But I think that the core meaning of XRM is actually
"set aside" (for the deity), which is also its meaning in Arabic. In this
way, its core meaning is very similar to QD$. ...
Yigal, you may know more Arabic than I do, but from what I understand
the meaning in Arabic is almost precisely opposite to QD$, much more
like +M) and $QC.
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Peter Kirk
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