[Mesorah] At/Atah

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In a message dated 8/24/2008 9:16:35 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
bkandel at yu.edu writes:

A couple  of small comments: 1) In Syriac, the Proto-Semitic nun is also
preserved  (not just the yodh), and there's something like a perpetual
k'rei-ketiv of  *'anti>'at.  2) The proposed second-person feminine pronoun
*'anti  is not just a figment of linguists' imagination; it's attested to
in the  ketiv of several pesukim (e.g., Shoftim 17:2, Melakhim Alef 14:2,
etc.),  and *Ibn Ezra observes a similar phenomenon with  *bint>bat* (Peirush
ha-Arukh, Shmot 5:9).

Kol  tuv

Ben Kandel


>>>>>>
Very interesting. This would explain why the plural of bas is  banos.

 

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