Re: Judge

> Paul Wexler
> Explorations in Judeo-Slavic Linguistics
> p 47, n 201
> (discussing interchange of /n/ and /m/ in loans between Hebrew and
> Slavic)
> '... See also OCz Sephyn 'Judges' (late 14th-early 15th c) <
> He Šoft.īm (Schröpfer 1971:358, line 40) vs. B(ela)r(usian) Softim ~
> Šoftimъ (1519) (Skaryna's forewords to 1 Kings and 1 Judges
> respectively). I have no evidence of the confusion of the two nasals
> from any Jewish source; nor is it clear yet whether the
> unetymological n or m became lexicalized.'
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francysk_Skaryna
>
> Isn't it more likely that the OCz Sephyn is related instead to
> this/these words for "judge"
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sch%C3%B6ffe
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schepen
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89chevin
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89chevin_(Luxembourg)
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C5%A0epmistr
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scabino
> ?
>
> The Semitic root Å¡-p.-t "judge"
> http://starling.rinet.ru/cgi-bin/response.cgi?single=1&basename=/data/semham/semet&text_number=1012&root=config
>
> seems to be limited to the
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akkadian_language
> and the
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northwest_Semitic_languages
> which are distantly related, which seems to indicate it's a cultural
> term. A further relative is found in Chadic
> http://starling.rinet.ru/cgi-bin/response.cgi?single=1&basename=/data/semham/wchet&text_number=1009&root=config
>
>
> Torsten
> ****R
> Yu mention Akkadian and NW Semitic as "distantly related".

Within the
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semitic_languages
group, that is. My knowledge doesn't go far beyond Wikipedia.


Torsten