Re: Semitish

From: Mark Odegard
Message: 4837
Date: 2000-11-24

> I'm thinking of renaming "Semitish" to "West Semitic". Does
> anyone have objections? Talk to me, girls. :)

Girls?

'West Semitic' is already taken. I not sure of the exact semantic
space it occupies; it seems to be used by paleographers. I suspect it
means 'linguistic remains of ancient Semitic-speakers the Levant',
which would include Hebrew. Why not just call it Shemitic, and revive
Japhethic for your pre-proto-IE?

Mark.