Re: Non-constructed religions
| From: | Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, November 10, 1998, 0:54 |
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Steg Belsky wrote:
> But it can't be causative....the causative paradigm in the present tense
> begins with a *mem*...mashpil, moshiv, molikh, mazkir, mag`il..... (to
> lower, to bring back, to guide, to remind, to disgust).
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> The root of "to be" in Hebrew is HYH. It's conjugation as a causative
> singular male present-tense verb (a.k.a. noun) would most probably be (if
> there was such a thing in modern hebrew) *mahaveh.
Could it have been an archaic form, then? I'd read that Yahweh was some
sort of causative form. I know that Yahweh is pretty definite as the
proper pronunciation.
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