[Avodah] Legions

[Micha Berger via Avodah]

On Wed, Aug 17, 2016 at 02:32:54PM -0400, Zev Sero wrote:
: Where did Chazal use either of those plurals?   I couldn't find any
: example of "tallesos".
: 
: Mishna Zavim 4:5, according to the Kauffman manuscript, has "t'li'os"
: (tes with a shevo, lamed with a chirik molei, alef with cholom molei, sof),
: and in 4:7 it has "telayos" (tes with a shevo, lamed with a komatz, yud
: with a cholom molei, sof).  It also has the singular as "t'lis", (tes with
: a shevo, lamed with a chirik molei, sof), whereas usually it spells it
: "taleis" (tes with a patoch, lamed with a tzeireh, sof).

:> "Tallios" comes from treating the Greek "-is" suffix the way it sounds,

: There is no Greek "-is" suffix.  The Greek is "stole".  The final sof (:-))
: was added by Hebrew.

The nominitive feminine signular suffix would turn "stole" to "stolis"
when the item of clothing is the subject of a sentence.

The LXX uses "stolis" (-eta-w/-perispomeni sigma) for the aderes the
king of Nineveh (of all of Ashur?) exchanges for sackcloth in Yonah 3:6.
<https://www.blueletterbible.org/lxx/jon/3/1/t_conc_892006>

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-Micha

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