Re: hello?

kh@Tv@ vardi:

>Another example: the Arab village of Sulam in the north of Israel
stands
>on the site of the Biblical town(?) of Shunam - here there is a sh > s
>shift, as well as n > l.
Thanks, you just answered a question I had about the Biblical names
Shunamite and Shulamite, the latter being the ethnicity of the bride in
the Song of Songs.  (Could that be a shiboleth?)

s@lA:w~,

Danny
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