Peter:Here are some examples of words starting with sin and shin in Hebrew with their Aramaic cognates, taken from the word lists (based on a standard list of 100 words used for word list comparisons) in "Comparative Semitic Linguistics" by Patrick R Bennett, rewritten by me more or less in this list's standard transliteration:
On 11/27/06, Peter Kirk <peter AT qaya.org> wrote:
... How did Hebrews know toAnother example is TLTH for three.
pronounce their word for "bull" shor rather than sor, when the Aramaic
is tor? But shor fits the reconstruction from the common ancestor. And
that's a quick example from memory.
Here's where research is needed, a person who knows both Biblical
Hebrew and Aramaic, is there a pattern that wherever the Hebrew
sibilant is changed to a T in Aramaic, that it is the shin and not the
sin that is changed? My knowledge of Aramaic is too limited to do the
research, but I am curious what the answer would be.
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