Re: no:t@r pa:D@r iNkAjlA (with audio)

On Sun, 1 Sep 2002 08:06:28 -0400 Muke Tever <mktvr@...> writes:
> > BTW:  In coelis?  Why would heaven be plural?  Is that to
> > distinguish
> > heaven from the sky?
> It is plural in the Greek:  ou)ranoi=s
> I don't know why, but it may have become habitually plural, like L
> "tenebras".
>     *Muke!
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I remember someone saying something on here a while ago about the
Christian Bible's New Testament having been primarily written in Greek by
native Semitic-speakers, which may have influenced the syntax.  In Hebrew
and Aramaic, "sky/heaven" (at least the most common word for them) is
grammatically plural (dual, actually): _shamayim_ (Ar.: _shemaya_).  Like
"water" _mayim_, it has no singular form.


-Stephen (Steg)
 "your whistling sounds like scary alien bees!"
     ~ why not to attempt tuvan throat-singing in public :-P