בוהן which means thumb / "the digit that can go between" is related to בון and בין "to get in between" ראש meaning head comes from ראה meaning "the place of seeing" אבן meaning "stone = building material" similar to תבן straw; comes from בנה to build
David Kolinsky
From: Uri Hurwitz <uhurwitz AT yahoo.com> To:
b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org Sent: Thu, November 29, 2012 9:12:26 AM Subject: [b-hebrew] [ b-hebrew] gen 28 sulam
Hi Nir,
You wrote:
> most nouns in most ancient languages do not have a proven source within the dialect, nor can be established as loan words. <
On what grounds did you make this statement?
Further you stated:
> in hebrew i will mention $ULXAN (table), KOBA (hat), TEBA (arc), E$ (fire), NKD (grandson), NYN (great grandson), ZRT (pinky), BHN (toe), R($ (head), YD (hand), )BN (stone) etc. only by cross-reference with other dialects can this be validated.<
Here you lost me completely: some of your examples are common Semitic, e.g. The words for head, and hand. Further, did you ever ask yourself why E$ (Fire), is feminine in Hebrew? Look it up in Akkadian where it is Ishatu - the f. marker 'T' is very much
there.
Nothing to add about the linguisticallly shaky ladder. Shaky only linguistically, we saw how well it served Jacob.