Re: Letf / Right, was Re: Count and mass nouns
| From: | Ray Brown <ray.brown@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, January 22, 2004, 6:37 |
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On Tuesday, January 20, 2004, at 10:13 AM, Steg Belsky wrote:
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> In some languages it is.
> For instance, in Biblical Hebrew, there are a lot of synonyms for the
> directions. One system is:
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> east = |qedem| "forwards"
> west = |ahhor| "behind"
> north = |semol| "left"
> south = |yamin| "right"
In Welsh _de_ means both "south" and "right [hand side]"
Ray
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