Re: New member

On Tue, 29 May 2001, Dan Sulani wrote:

> the Bible doesn't give a derivation for the term. For all that _is_
> written there about /adam/ (=man) being taken from the /adama/ (=earth),
> no connection is made in the text. (At least not in the Hebrew text;
No explicit connection is made in the Septuagint, either.  From doing a
look surfing, I've discovered that "dm" may have meant "man" in Phoenician
and Ugaritic, but it may have meant "servant" in southern Arabian Semitic
and "admu" may have meant "child" in Akkadian.  Any connection with words
meaning "earth" or "ruddy" is actually a back-construction.  There was a
theory at the turn of the last century (ca 1900) that it may be connected
with the Assyrian "adamu"--to make or be made (I'm not sure which).

> specified. (and AFAIK, in Israeli Hebrew at least, /adama/ does not, by
> itself,
> indicate any specific default color of earth. If you want to specify red or
Of course, one has to ask the origin of the modern Hebrew word, since
modern Hebrew is a conlang.