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Re: OT: clothing terms (was: Re: OT: CUNY...)

From:Danny Wier <dawier@...>
Date:Sunday, June 10, 2001, 23:36
From: "Steg Belsky" <draqonfayir@...>

| On Sat, 9 Jun 2001 09:20:09 -0500 Danny Wier <dawier@...> writes:
| > tl'yãd : bandage, harness, girdle (from Semitic d.-m-d, "to bandage")

| Reminds me of Hebrew _tzemed_, "bracelet"... if only i could remember if
| /d./ went to /s./ in Hebrew...

Yes it did.  So did Semitic /tS'/ which became Arabic emphatic dh/z.

~DaW~


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