Re: THEORY nouns and cases (was: Verbs derived from noun cases)

On Apr 26, 2004, at 10:50 PM, Danny Wier wrote:
> I'm looking up _qitt_ 'cat' in the online Arabic dictionary
> (http://dictionary.ajeeb.com/); the verb _qatta_ means 'cut' or
> 'trim', but
> I doubt the words are related, since the word for 'cat' is probably a
> loanword from a Nilo-Saharan language (as is English 'cat', French
> _chat_,
> German _Katz_, Spanish _gato_, Russian _kotec_ etc. etc. etc.).
> Incidentally, Muhammad was a cat lover, according to legend.

Hmm... that makes me wonder where the Hebrew term, |hhatul|
(non-emphatic T), comes from.


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