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"i would like to see the semitic use of RQ(
as "patch", of which i am unaware. [in
hebrew there are the associated hebrew verb
RQM (patch, sew), RKK (softened), and HRKYB
(combined), RWQN (emptied), RYQ (void) but the
relation is unclear at best.]
interesting is RKS, which as a verb means
(nowadays) "to button", but as a biblical noun
means a mountainhead or cordillera (a
lifted/expanded(??) surface?), again somewhat
a long shot, thoughS-C and K-Q interchanges
were not uncommon)." <
The letters Kaf and Quf are totally different
in NW and South Semitics.
They were pronounced differently when BH was
written down, for otherwise there would not have
been a need for two different letter signs. They are
of course pronounced differently in Arabic to
this day.
)zov haqqyr,
Uri Hurwitz
interestly, several permutations of RQ(=patch?) convey an
opposite idea for cohesiveness: QR( (to tear/rip apart),
Q(R (concave), (RQ (to desert), (QR (rip off, remove).