Anthony wrote: << How many phonemes must a language which uses radicals possess in order to form sufficient triradicals? ... Well, if you admit for the...
... I merely second David's opinion. A typical Semitic lang (the only kind of natlangs that use this kind of morphology AFAIK) uses 20-30 consonantal phonemes,...
... The structure of the words of the language are CV1RV1V2C or CV1RV2V1C, where C= consonant, V= vowel, and R= root, which may be C, CC, or CCC. Although...
I know Jor-el would mean 'Fear +god' in Hebrew; what wold Kal-el mean? Zor-el? (For the record, I always assumed that the parentless Superman was an...
... Jor would only mean that if you're reading it as coming from the root /j r ?/. Kal could be /q l l/ "lightweight" or "easy", or /k w l/ "measure" or /k l...
Steg wrote: << Kal could be /q l l/ "lightweight" or "easy" ... Ha, ha. "Look! It's a bird! It's a plane! Oh, never mind, it's just that lightweight....
I don't know how much Hebrew Siegel and Shuster knew, but I would find it astonishing if two Jewish kids didn't realize the Biblical feeling of -el/-L...
The roots k-l and k-l-' seem to focus on completeness, and finishing, and last,ness, so maybe Kal-el is an approriate name for the Last Son of Krypton. ... ...
Issac, You know, what with my divorce and everything that went with it this past year, I haven't done any conlanging at all. And, with the trouble leading up...
Not really a new idea, but I was wondering what the various possible vowel insertions for the Hebrew root khn might be and the possible/actual meanings they ...
... From Strong's: http://www.biblestudytools.net/Lexicons/Hebrew/ khn - prim. root meaning 'to mediate in religious services' Kahan – priest's office Kahan...
... I guess I should have stated that I knew about these. What I'm looking for is any other patterns that are *possible*, whether attested or not, in the...
... The causative [l@haxhi:n] /l@hakhi:n/ could mean "to invest someone into office" The reflexive _lehitkahein_ could be "to assume office", whether in an ...
Just a note on the syllable initial /o/ in the Hebrew word "kohen." A look at the ancient Hebrew texts reveals that the Hebrew /o/ is merely dialectal and...
... Analytical Lexicon gives the same, plus the verb in pi`el - kihein - 1. to prepare, make ready, adjust; 2. to minister or act as a priest. Plus the Arabic...
... I strongly doubt it was so. Transition from Semitic /a:/ to Canaanite /o:/ is well established by comparative studies and dated by appr. 14-12 cc. BCD -...
Yitzik, Thanks for your input. I agree that there was a transition from the earlier Semitic /a/ to the later Canaanite /o/ in the Hebrew language. That is...
... Considering that Hebrew is a Canaanite language, i think it's safe to assume that before they got to Canaan, the Hebrews were speaking Hurrian, Aramaic, or...
... That's exactly what I was saying. Technically speaking, Hebrew is a Canaanite langauge, though surely somehow different from the languages of actual...
... Funny, I also prefer thinking about this form as basic for Aramaic nouns, e.g. when quoting: shlama, shmaya, malka, dina etc. ;) ... Wow! Are you then, so...
Sadly I'm not a native speaker, but my children (when I have some) will be native speakers. I learned the language in my teens during Shabbat studies with my...
So, if I understand the below correctly, your distant ancestory were Jews from the tribes of Reuben and Naphtali who were exiled to Assyria, became ...
Is there a path by which a Semitic or Semitic-patterned language could change away from the holding pattern? I would suggest that an ATL Punic or Galilaean...
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