Isaac:
Many years ago I watched the linguist Avshalom Kor on Israeli TV expound on the word 'shel'. He explained that 'shel' is a contraction of the more archaic expression 'asher leh', as in 'shir hashirim asher le Shlomo' which would be shir hashirim shel Shlomo'.
If follows then that 'shelo' and 'shelanu' would be short for 'asher lo' and 'asher lanu'.
Uzi Silber
On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 7:04 AM, Isaac Fried <if AT math.bu.edu> wrote:
In the word *$EL-O שלו (as in $EL-IY שלי of Songs 1:6, or $EL-
ANU שלנו of 2Ki 6:11),
is the O a mere "vowel suffix", or is it the contracted personal
pronoun HU, 'he'? I don't think that Hebrew is made up of "vowel
suffixes".
Isaac Fried, Boston University
On Feb 16, 2012, at 12:59 PM, Nir cohen - Prof. Mat. wrote:
> an added -W in mostly pausal poetic situations, representing
> an archaic vowel suffix.
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