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- From: backon@vms.huji.ac.il
- Newsgroups: sci.classics
- Subject: Re: Greek words of Semitic Origin
- Message-ID: <1992Oct8.130752.612@vms.huji.ac.il>
- Date: 8 Oct 92 13:07:52 GMT
- References: <ARA.92Sep19023116@camelot.ai.mit.edu> <1992Sep23.150741.202886@uctvax.uct.ac.za>
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- Organization: The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
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- In article <1992Sep23.150741.202886@uctvax.uct.ac.za>, naturman@uctvax.uct.ac.za writes:
- > In article <ARA.92Sep19023116@camelot.ai.mit.edu>, ara@zurich.ai.mit.edu (Allan Adler) writes:
- >>
- >> I've seen books that give Indo European roots of Greek words and they
- >> look useful. However, some Greek words apparently are not of Indo European
- >> origin. For example, I think the word asphalt comes from the Greek
- >> asphaltos, which my dictionary says is probably of Semitic origin.
- >>
- >> In view of this, is there a book which lists all of the Greek words
- >> of Semitic origin and discusses their etymology?
- >>
- >> Allan Adler
- >> ara@altdorf.ai.mit.edu
- >
- > And what about a similar book for Latin. "Aurora" is clearly Hebrew for
- > "wakening".
- >
- > *****************************************************************************
- > * Baby Doc Naturman *
- > * USS Enterprise "It's life Jim, *
- > * Final Frontier but not as we know it." *
- > * naturman@uctvax.uct.ac.za *
- > * Spock of Vulcan *
- > *****************************************************************************
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- There are many thousands of words appearing in Mozeson's THE WORD: THE
- DICTIONARY THAT REVEALS THE HEBREW SOURCE OF ENGLISH, ISBN 0-933503-44-X.
- Shapolsky Publishers, 136 West 22nd Street, New York NY 10011
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- Josh
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- Dr. Josh Backon
- backon@VMS.HUJI.AC.IL
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