Re: Just a Little Taste of Judean (Part 2)
| From: | Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, April 12, 1999, 2:03 |
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Tom Wier wrote:
> German "heute" comes from Latin "hodie",
Does that mean "today"?! If so, it certainly seems surprising that the
word for "today" would be a borrowing.
> "ille" developed into
> the articles; "iste" had various fates, sometimes being dropped (I think)
> and sometimes become a regular demonstrative.
Yeah, IIRC, it only survived in Iberian Romance.
> Here's a question: I seem to remember linguists reconstructing
> a /T/ phoneme for Protosemitic; is that true, and if so, did it survive
> into any stage of Hebrew?
I don't know about Hebrew, but, IIRC, Arabic has /T/ and /D/.
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