From: "Nir cohen - Prof. Mat." <nir AT ccet.ufrn.br>
To: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
Subject: [b-hebrew] abrHm or abRhm?
Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2013 23:05:20 -0300
yigal, uri,
concerning abraham's name, and the H-infix hypothesis
one direction is to examine the general use of similar
infixes in BH.
a paper in "Morphology" (eds Booij, Ehrmann, Mugdan, de Gruyter
2000 ~pp 547-52) of an unidentified author made a typological
study of many languages, to the effect that an infix may imitate a
corresponding affix but its meaning may be more "intrinsic" than the
affix. in our case, a candidate may be the definite article H- (??).
moreover, the infix formation is a relative of the doubling formation.
in other words, an H-infix may be tantamount of a doubling of a vowel A.
consider the following examples of mostly BH infixes/doubles.
i did not check each of them carefully - some may be based on
wrong associations.