[Avodah] How Bitter Can A Month Be? Bittersweet.

[Micha Berger]

On Sat, October 13, 2007 11:06 pm, Zev Sero wrote:
: Micha Berger wrote:
:> So, merach would be yareiach in Hebrew,

: Yerach.

Yerach is semichut, no? "Yerach ha'Eisanim" is "the month OF the greats".

Why would the Akkadian use the equivalent of a semichut? Therefore,
even though the vowels are "yerach", I think "merach" is the
equivalent of "yeariach" ("month", without the "of").

SheTir'u baTov!
-micha