Re: swallow vs. nighingale

From: fournet.arnaud
Message: 50981
Date: 2007-12-22

I have checked this root &_t_m = ¿_t_m
&ayin as first consonant.
 
The core meaning is "end of the day,
beginning of night, time when things are colorless
and hard to distinguish".
 
&âtim "indistinct, colorless, greyish"
&atam "first period of (dim-lit) night"
&atama "star that cannot be seen clearly
either because night is not dark enough or
too much dust is flying in the air".
 
This last derivative clearly conflicts with
the hypothesis that the meaning could be "dark ou black".
 
This root &_t_m probably is a derivative of t_mm "end, finish".
hence &_t_m "end of day-light".
 
It has nothing to do with H_m "black".
 
Arnaud
 
 
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From: Patrick Ryan
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Subject: [Courrier indésirable] Re: [tied] Re: swallow vs. nighingale

Arabic ¿atamatun, darkness; ¿attama, darken
 
 
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