Travis,
One of the reasons that what I am saying is being so little debated
is because it leaves the contributing members of this list literally
speechless.
... On the one hand they are reluctant, I think, to
acknowledge something as radical as this, coming from nowhere and
never before uttered by the venerable Gesenius [the faithful follower
of the medieval Jewish grammarians, who got the system from their
Arab counterparts of Spain],
... but on the other hand they are unable, I
think, to concretely refute or contradict it.
... I know that what I am
saying is inherently correct, and that it actually, decisively,
completely and elegantly, solve the entire enigma of the structure of
the Hebrew language, and conclusively clarifies its grammar.
... I keep
saying here what I think needs to be said under the premise that
behind the vanguard of a few actively contributing list members there
hides a big army of silent readers, and I know that eventually at
least some of them will be won over to the side of reason.
What I essentially inter alia claim is that the Hebrew tri-literal
root was not born so fully formed, but was rather built up over time
of single-literal roots. One of these roots ["reversed cognates"] is
AB or BA where A is a vowel entered just to facilitate the
pronunciation. In Hebrew the A vowel may be carried by an Ayin or an
Aleph indifferently. AB-BA [or AP-PA or AW-WA] essentially means
'thick, of actual presence'. In this sense, 'father' is essentially
'the thick one, the fat one [father = fat-er?]', and likewise cloud
[a closed clod of vapor] is also essentially 'the thick one,'---they
are both in their material essence one and the same. Yet to visually,
and eventually semantically, distinguish between them )AB, 'father'
is written with an Aleph and (AB, cloud' is written with an Ayin.
Likewise, )AP, 'nose', is the fleshy part jutting up on the face
[recall Song 7:5 "thy nose is as the tower of Lebanon which looketh
toward Damascus"], and (AP, 'fly', means being up [no movement, just
being up there].
Consider also 1 Samuel 1:20. "she bare a son, and called his name
Samuel, saying, Because I have asked [root: $)L] him of the LORD." I
suspect that the original spelling of the name was $MU()EL with an
Ayin for Listened-God, of the root $M(, but that this Ayin was
dropped in writing with the intention of achieving in our mind the
segregation of this and the other ancient name YI$MA()EL. It is also
clear from this verse that the pious and linguistically monumentally
gifted Hannah saw the roots $M and $L as being related.
To see the equivalence of of AB-BA and the other existence markers AG-MA-(AB-EH, 'thicket': 1 Kings 7:46, used only here, context indicates
GA [AK-KA, AQ-QA], AL-LA, AN-NA, AS-SA [AD-DA, AC-CA, AT-TA, AZ-ZA]
consider the Hebrew words: my comments follow yours:
Meanwhile we can pleasantly and profitably contemplate the curiousAre they from the same root? Where is your evidence?
similarity of )ADON, 'master', of BI )ADONI, and )EDEN 'base', both
from the root )DN.
Isaac Fried, Boston University
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