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Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Ps 31:7 hashomrim
Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2012 19:18:56 -0500
Indeed, even אתם ATEM, 'you', is apparently AT-HEM.
Isaac Fried, Boston University
On Nov 5, 2012, at 6:34 AM, George Athas wrote:
> It appears to me that the ending -IYM is the contracted personal pronoun הם HEM, 'they'.
>
> Isaac Fried, Boston University
…which poses a problem when, for example, the IYM ending is predicated of a first person ('we') or second person ('you'). Etymologically it seems rather constrictive.