Hello Isaac:
A mother naming her son יצחק sounds entirely reasonable in the context of this happening prior to pregnancy.
ויאמר יהוה אל אברהם למה זה צחקה שרה לאמר האף אמנם אלד ואני זקנתי
genesis 18:13
regards,
fred burlingame
On Sat, Nov 27, 2010 at 4:36 PM, Isaac Fried <if AT math.bu.edu> wrote:
1. Consider my friend Yankaleh Xazanc'ic
2. Do you really believe that a mother in her right mind would call her son YICXAK, 'he will laugh'?
Isaac Fried, Boston University
On Nov 27, 2010, at 8:33 AM, Arnaud Fournet wrote:
Who can believe that a Semitic name could be suffixed by the grammatical morphemes of another language?
A.
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