Re: OT: Bargoens (Was: Re: OT: Programmed/Hand made music (was: Random word generators (was Re: Worthwhile Engelang Goal)))

On Jun 9, 2005, at 11:33 PM, René Uittenbogaard wrote:
> I love Bargoens - I remember how funny it was to hear that the pointing
> stick used for reading the Torah scroll (ending in a hand) is called a
> "yad" - the word "jat" /jAt/ being Dutch slang for "hand" :)
|yad| in Hebrew means "hand", so the pointer-with-a-hand-shaped-tip is
simply called "hand" after its shape :) .

> Or to hear that the word "tof" ("cool", "neat") is the same word as
> used
> in the book Genesis, where it says "God looked at the light and saw
> that
> it was good (apparently "toob/tauw")." :)
> De mazzel,
> René
_tov_ /t>o:b/ [t>o:v], in Classical Hebrew.


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