[Avodah] Yekum Purkan

Zev Sero zev at sero.name
Wed Dec 12 21:45:01 PST 2007


Micha Berger wrote:

> 2- Yequm Purqan sounds like Babylonian Aramaic to my untrained ear. It
> has all those words with trailing vowels one finds in the language of
> people called "rabi" as opposed to that of "rav".

But Rabbi was used in EY, and Rav in Bavel...

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