Re: Hebrew, etc. [was: Multi-lingos

On 24 Aug,  Steg wrote:
>Okay, here's another "doubtful nice idea":
>
>i always thought that _tikhon_ meant "upper", so "high school" would be
>translated as "high school"....i think this idea came from seeing a map
>somewhere of the Biblical Period, which labeled the Persian Gulf
>something like ha-Yam ha-Tahhton, making it "lower" and the mediterranean
>"upper".

    Not having seen the map, I can't comment on the name
"ha-Yam ha-Tahhton"; but regarding "tikhon", I'm sorry,
but it means "central" or "middle". It comes from the
word "tokh",  which means "within" and no way comes
even  close to meaning "up" or "high".

Dan Sulani
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