From: fournet.arnaud
Message: 55012
Date: 2008-03-11
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From: Patrick Ryan
Hebrew t°?om-i "twin"? where do you get off 'emending' Hebrew?
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Hebrew t°?om(i) means "twin"
and Arabic ta?u:m means "twin" as well.
And my guess the vowel in
(ka?)-ta?om? is *a was right : Arabic has a.
Nice.
I'm afraid you got a mono-syllabic biais
One has to read all the word, not just the first letter.
Arnaud
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The Hebrew root produces words meaning 'harmony', 'match'. I think it would
be obvious to most linguists that the basal meaning seems to be 'similar'
not 'one'.
You have illustrated the rankest amateurism by attempting to abstract the
meaning that suits your argument without cursorily researching the questions
at all.
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Fiflska !
I love that word.
Sounds so Chic.
Arnaud
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Do not dare to ever pronounce to me on methodology again.
Patrick
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First learn how to find a word
in a Hebrew or Arabic dictionary
then we'll move to step 2.
Arnaud
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