Peter:
This brings up the question which trumps what? Does internal evidence trump cognate languages, or the other way around?
If within Biblical Hebrew there is only one meaning evidenced for a lexeme, ...
(Further, the two Arabic roots look as if they could have come originally from one root that first became dialectic differences, that later became phonemic.)
The only way to resolve this disagreement is to find documents that show a development of Hebrew indicating that it originally had the extra sounds. So far there has been no sign of those documents. So we'll have to agree to disagree.No, Karl, I will not agree to disagree, although I will not pursue a pointless discussion for long. There is ample evidence available, from cognate languages and from transliterations, for this development of Hebrew, even though it is not in actual Hebrew documents because the Hebrew alphabet never made this particular distinction.
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