Yitzhak wrote:It seems that the Akkadians, like the French and the Cockneys, dropped their h's, or at least didn't write them. I think this is a general rule for Akkadian. Actually the same is true of Greek, if you look at Greek transliterations of Hebrew names, e.g. ABRAAM for Hebrew 'ABRAHAM.
*tiha:m; "sea"; Akk. tamtum, tia:mat, Arab taham "land sloping down by the
sea", tiha:mat "(geographical name for a coastal plain)"; Heb thom; Sy
thoma (loanword); Ug taha:matu
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JCR: Thanks for showing how they could be cognates. My difficulty lied in accounting for the 'h' of tehom and you seem to have adequately done so and shown similar patterns which I have omitted in my reply for brevities sake. I can now see what you were saying.
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