[Mesorah] Aramaic grammar

[Micha Berger via Mesorah]

On Fri, May 15, 2015 at 01:08:32AM +0000, Richard wrote:
:> And so Ribbi becomes Rav.

: My inderstand is that Ribbi denotes Semicahh in E"Y and Rav means no
: such Semichah, owing to "RAV" abba arika only getting a partial semichah.

Mine too. But my understanding is that this convention came from the
language norms of the locations in which they were common. (IOW, I'm
suggesting cause.)

:-)BBii!
-Micha

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