[Mesorah] Talis (plural form)

[Micha Berger]

On Mon, September 17, 2007 5:56 am, Dr. B. Rosenberg wrote:
: The word has ever been feminine in Hebrew....
: AFAIK there are NO EXCEPTIONS....

... except, it would seem, for "tallis qatan". Thus the whole discussion.

: To affirm that the word Talis origins from Greek is a nonsense, too.

Except that in <http://www.aishdas.org/avodah/vol07/v07n039.shtml#14>,
RSM showed a pretty clear *documented* path from the Greek estole'
(squish that accent onto the e) to the word "tallis". Complete with
mishnayos that have a leading alef (alef-tzadi or alef-samech,
depending on the masucript).

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-mi

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