Re: Just a Little Taste of Judean (Part 2)
| From: | Tom Wier <artabanos@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, April 12, 1999, 2:51 |
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Nik Taylor wrote:
> 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.
Yes -- but why is that strange? German was under heavy influence during
the occupation of the Rhine after Augustus. There are lots of words tha=
t
are closet borrowings (like "kaufen" ["to buy"] from "caup=F4", or "M=FCl=
ler"
["miller"] from "mola", the grindstone in mills). English, too, borrowe=
d
words from Latin before it was English, when it was "Urplattdeutsch" :)
> > Here's a question: I seem to remember linguists reconstructing
> > a /T/ phoneme for Protosemitic; is that true, and if so, did it survi=
ve
> > into any stage of Hebrew?
>
> I don't know about Hebrew, but, IIRC, Arabic has /T/ and /D/.
Yeah, I know modern languages do... I think they've been taken all the
way back to Protosemitic though.
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Tom Wier <artabanos@...>
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proletariat. It's the hamburgers of the
proletariat that I have a problem with. - Alfred Wallace
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