1 SHAMASH.ORG /usr/www/wwwhc/listserv/archives/heblang May 2000
2 36 29_Re: heh sound shift: DH --> H13_Monica Devens17_mdevens@yahoo.com37_Fri, 12 May 2000 22:08:04 -0700 (PDT)399_us-ascii Monica wrote: > ....I can't think of any scholar of Semitics who would claim that > third-radical /heh/ verbs have or ever have had an [h] as a heard sound.<br><br>Then Izzy Cohen wrote in response: > Perhaps words for blood, man, red and earth have become multilingual > homophones, in part, due to a sound-shift [postulated by me] > of the (proto)Hebrew 5th letter heh from DH to H. [...]