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2 29 36_RE: FISH:MULTIPLY::DGH:YDGU::NUN:NUN11_Cohen, Izzy18_Izzy_Cohen@bmc.com31_Wed, 23 Feb 2000 00:44:39 -0600451_ISO-8859-1 Prof Hendel et al.<br><br>Enjoyed your birthday flight of fancy. I'll add that the TuNa is a large fish, compared to most fish.<br><br>I suspect that DaG = fish is derived from sin-yod-het = swim based on the original dental D/T sound of the sin/shin.<br><br>You may remember that *every* shin in "my" anthropomorphic maps had a T-sound, with the partial exception of shin-dalet = breast, which is now called (T)Chad (south of Lybia). [...]
32 27 16_definite article13_Monica Devens17_mdevens@yahoo.com37_Wed, 23 Feb 2000 10:15:34 -0800 (PST)348_us-ascii I'm with Tsuguya on this one. It's certainly true that one proposal was an original /*'al/ with aleph becoming heh and lamed assimilating. Another proposal was an original /*hal/. Barth proposed an original /*haaC/ becoming /*haCC/ due to stress shift. (Boy, I wish I had arrows and macrons!) Another proposal was an original /*han/. [...]