Re: All of creation in Six and Seven

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Marco Moretti"
<marcomoretti69@...> wrote:

> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Richard Wordingham"
> <richard.wordingham@...> wrote:
>
> > --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Marco Moretti"
> > <marcomoretti69@...> wrote:
> > > No. Tiamat is a Semitic word not a Sumerian one. We have a WELL
> > > ATTESTED Hebrew teho:m "gap", "Deeps"; *tehowm is only
> > orthographic,
> > > the waw has no reality at all, and the item is not a product of
> > > speculation.
> >
> > Perhaps *tehowm is a typo for <teho:wm>? It's a bit pedantic to
> say
> > a waw 'has no reality' simply because it's a pure vowel symbol in
> > this context.
>
> Yes, I wright in a so sudden way, that often I make errors such as
> forgetting or inverting a character. Sorry, I meant *teho:wm.
> I think this waw has no reality.

I simply suggested that a transliteration had neen mistyped as a
reconstruction. The merger of Proto-Semitic *a: and *aw in Hebrew
and Phoenician / Punic is well known.

Richard.