Actually I do, but I also recognize that not all words that look the same
have identical origins. As the webpage that you cited mentioned, a lot of
rabbinic midrash is based on similarity between words. That's fine for
midrash – but not sound linguistics.
Yigal Levin
From: fred burlingame [mailto:tensorpath AT gmail.com]
Sent: Sunday, January 02, 2011 1:41 AM
To: Yigal Levin
Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] באר
Thanks for your comments.
It appears that you don't subscribe to the verb root theory of the language
.... at least in this instance.
On Sat, Jan 1, 2011 at 4:20 PM, Yigal Levin <leviny1 AT mail.biu.ac.il> wrote:
Okay. To answer the question, B)R "well" is obviously related to BoR, "hole,
water-hole, cistern". B)R "to explain" seems unrelated. The two are simply
homonyms, of which there are some in any language.