Re: Borrowing Wordlist
| From: | Jeffrey Henning <jeffrey@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, October 20, 2004, 20:09 |
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On Wed, 20 Oct 2004 22:53:17 +0300, Isaac A. Penzev <isaacp@...> wrote:
>Jeffrey Henning wrote:
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>> vOv - an egg in a bird's nest
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>> It's /ba/ at the moment, from Syriac _bee`a_.
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>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
You lost me. How would you Romanize the Syriac word?
Here's the only other Syriac contributions I have at the moment:
kelaba [Arabic <i>kalb</i>, Hebrew <i>keleb</i>, Syriac <i>kleb</i>,
Tigrigna <i>k?lbi</i>.] dog
semase [Hebrew <i>shemesh</i>, Syriac <i>shmesh</i>.] sun
Best regards,
Jeffrey
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