[Avodah] Hebrew and Aramaic

[Micha Berger]

On Wed, June 6, 2007 1:51 pm, kennethgmiller at juno.com wrote:
: Is "bar" (=son) a genuine and original Aramaic word, or did it come
: to Aramaic from Hebrew from the rashei teivos of "ben rabi"?

No, it's authentic. Some say it's the same r <* n change as "shenei"
-> "terei". Genesius says it's from the same family as "bara". In
either case, "bar" is not just Judeo Aramaic, it's Akkadian and
Ugaritic too.

(Arabic, of course, is "ibn".)

Tir'u baTov!
-mi