Re: Circumfixes?

From: "Steg Belsky" <draqonfayir@...>

| If you count the vowel-changes caused by the stress shifts in construct
| compounds, Hebrew has two cases.  It also has a *very* limited
| 'destination' case found mostly in Biblical literature:
|
| yerushalayim = Jerusalem
| lirushalayim (le-yerushalayim) = to Jerusalem
|
| old 'destination' case:
| yerushalayma = to Jerusalem

Sounds like the old locative case in Latin: Romae = in Rome.

| The 'destination' case (what's the real word?) is today mostly found in
| the fossilized form _habayta_, "homewards":

I guess either locative, dative or elative.

~DaW~


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