Re: Borrowing Wordlist

Jeffrey Henning wrote:

> vOv - an egg in a bird's nest
>
> It's /ba/ at the moment, from Syriac _bee`a_.
Just keep in mind: Syriac is not typical in its consonants. `ayin here
stands for a lost emphatic sound. Cf to Hebrew _beitza_ and Mn Standard
Arabic _bayd.un_ (where |d.| is appr. [d_?\]). Proto-Semitic recontructions
may be smth like *bajK\_>U

-- Yitzik, who is still gathering Semitic material to revive his
"Newgaritic" project