[Avodah] Ivris

[A & C Walters]

See the Meiri beg. B"K who uses the word "Ivris" for the language. Not, 
lehavdil, that is has any shaychus to the haintige language of the same 
name.

See also http://www.israelversusjudaism.org/torah-judaism/lshon-hakodesh.cfm

Kol tuv


> But did those Rishonim use the "-it" suffix to turn a nation's name
> into the language that it speaks?  Nechemiah uses "Ashdodit" and
> "Yehudit", and the Mishnah uses "Yevanit", but AFAIK the Rishonim
> and Acharonim would have said "Lashon Ashdodi", or "Lashon Yehudi",
> or "Lashon Yevani".


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