Cc: "b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org" <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] בעדי
Date: Sun, 28 Apr 2013 06:09:58 -0400
On 4/28/2013 4:13 AM, John Leake wrote:
Perhaps, though, Barry, a better comparison migr be between, say,
Ciceronian Latin and Silver Larin: when Cicero uses vexatus to mean
'ravaged', Juvenal (and later authors) use it to mean 'annoyed'.
This is either diachronic semantic shift or semantic range within a
language, not the relationship of cognate languages.