Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] English phonaesthetical cells in Hebrew (2)
Date: Sat, 20 Mar 2010 21:10:17 -0500
[VADIM CHERNY]- Thank you. It seems to me that whatever few phonaesthetical
clusters exist in English are imported from Hebrew (or W. Semitic, at any
rate) which is almost entirely phonaesthetical language: almost all Hebrew
three-letter roots share the meaning based on their two-letter root base.
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[ISHINAN]- A clarification: what seems to be a two-letter root base in
Semitic languages, technically is still considered a three-letter root base;
on account of the last letter's germination.
For example, applied to Hebrew, consider the following phonaesthetical [bt]
and [gz] clusters examples:
A- Strong's :1327 btt-h to break in pieces
B- Strong's : 1333 btq to cut in pieces.
C- Strong's : 1334 btr to chop up:--divide.
a- Strong's: 1494 gzz to cut off; to shear a flock or shave the hair; cut
off, shave,
b- Strong's: 1497 gzl to pluck off; specifically to flay, strip tear.
c- Strong's: 1501 gzm to devour.
d- Strong's: 1503 gz' to cut down (trees).
e- Strong's: 1504 gzr to cut down or off.
Note in above examples (A) and (a) btt and gzz respectively; both have
their last letter /t/ and /z/ geminated.
The same is noticed in the Classical Arabic cluster of "qT" yielding: qTT ,
qT`, qTm, qTl and qTf .
Note here in the case of the Arabic qTT, instead of writing the emphatic
letter T twice, as in English, Arabic places a w-shaped sign called saddah,
above it; an equivalent in Hebrew would be dages hazaq.
I hope this helps.
Yours truly
Ishinan Ishibashi
Re: [b-hebrew] English phonaesthetical cells in Hebrew (2),
Ishinan, 03/20/2010