[Avodah] Ancient Ashkenazi Hebrew

Micha Berger micha at aishdas.org
Fri Sep 16 02:46:09 PDT 2011


On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 11:12:27PM -0400, Zev Sero wrote:
> On 15/09/2011 5:30 PM, Micha Berger wrote:
>> But a youth is a nar, not a nayr.
>
> A nar is a fool, not a youth, and has nothing to do with "na`ar".
> It comes directly from the German "Narr".

What does that have to do with the qorei who leins "vehinei nar bokheh"?
(Other than aiding me in thinking of the example.) Ever hear "vehinei
nayr bokheh"?

Now it could be that narr got back-interpolated to corrupt "na'ar".

:-)BBii!
-Micha



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