[Avodah] Ivrit

[Jacob Farkas]

>  > > On Wed, February 21, 2007 4:59 pm, R Zev Sero wrote:
>  > > : Lettuce.  I have no idea why Ivrit uses the word for horseradish,...
>  > >
>  > > Your nomenclature is faulty. There are rishonim who refer to Lashon 
> haQodesh
>  > > as "Lashon Ivri". The word "Ivrit" can't be used as though it 
> exclusively
>  > > means Aba"zit (Ivrit bat zamaneinu) without a modifier.
> 
R' Zev Sero wrote:
> 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".
> 

In an earlier discussion- 
http://www.aishdas.org/avodah/vol17/v17n072.shtml#10
We referred to Sefer HaKuzari who uses the phrase 'Ivris.'

--Jacob Farkas