Re: [tied] Re: PIE's closest relatives

On Tue, 13 Jan 2004 01:23:07 +0000, Richard Wordingham
<richard.wordingham@...> wrote:

>There is, of course, the example of Arabic _wa:h.id_ 'one', Hebrew _?
>eh.a:d_ 'one', but this may just be a case of parallel roots. It's
>certainly not a regular correspondence.

Arabic <?ah.ad(un)> "one" (as a pronoun) corresponds to Hebrew <?eh.a:d>.
The Hebrew cognate of Arabic <wa:h.id(un)> is <yah.ad> "to be united".

=======================
Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
mcv@...