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Re: Borrowing Wordlist

From:Jeffrey Henning <jeffrey@...>
Date:Wednesday, October 20, 2004, 20:09
On Wed, 20 Oct 2004 22:53:17 +0300, Isaac A. Penzev <isaacp@...> wrote:

>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
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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