The Etymology of Hebrew and Aramaic Ykl ‘to be able’
In Biblical Hebrew and in middle and late dialects of Aramaic, the verb ‘to be able’ has the root y-k-l. That root ought to derive from an earlier Semitic root with initial *w or *y, i.e., *w-k-l or *y-k-l, but such a root is not attested elsewhere in Semitic with that meaning. Elsewhere in West Sem...
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Oxford University Press
[2013]
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Journal of Semitic studies
Year: 2013, Volume: 58, Issue: 1, Pages: 13-19 |
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