Isaac,[cut]
you mail is of a thick and dense content...
Here and now I limit myself to ask you to explain in more deail this assertion of yours:
it is not the -AH that merely turns PAR, 'bull' into PARAH, 'cow, PAR-she'.
Simply, I do not understand what you mean by this (and I suppose many of listers don't either).
Your words seem to defy evidence:
a. zar, strange, foreign (male) (Ex 30:33) <> zarah, strange, foreign (female) (Ex 30:9)
b. lavan, white (male) (Lev 13:4) <> l'vanah, white (female) (Lev 13:4)
c. (modern Israeli Hebrew)
mar, mister, sir <> marah, lady
and so on...
Do you mean that suffix -AH is used to mark the female but it is ALSO used for other purposes other than to mean the feminine? Is this what you really mean by your assertion?
Pere Porta
Barcelona (Spain)
From pporta AT oham.net Mon Dec 10 01:01:14 2007Return-Path: <pporta AT oham.net>
From S-d0101 till S-d0128 --- all end in H
From farmerjoeblo AT hotmail.com Mon Dec 10 03:45:52 2007Return-Path: <farmerjoeblo AT hotmail.com>
2. Even though -AH is in my opinion but a contracted HI) it may refer
to various agents and objects in various relationship modes. We have
YALDAH, 'girl, child-she', YALDAH, 'she gave birth, produced-a-chid-
she' and YALDAH, 'her boy, boy-she'.
4. In the adjective TOBAH, 'good', -AH refers to the feminine bearer
of the attribute, but in the noun TOBAH, 'favor, goodness', -AH
refers to the thing itself. Incidentally it is "female", as is
autostradah.
5 The counterpart to MAR, 'mister' is MAR-AT, where -AT is surely the
personal pronoun AT, 'you'. MARAH is 'bitter'. Such is also the
relationship between GEBER and GBER-ET.
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