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I've been doing an unofficial study of words for mother, father, grandmother, grandfather in different languages.
A slightly Greek friend of mine says Ya-YA is Gramma, so what would the others be?
Thx, Y :)
A slightly Greek friend of mine says Ya-YA is Gramma, so what would the others be?
Thx, Y :)
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Thank you very much, sir...(m)
So...what's the relationship 'tween Meter/Yaya, etc? I notice here the 'p' becomes 'b'; in Hebrew, Av becomes Abba, dif being one dot in the v/b, and -a.
I've just grown cur'us 'bout it, 'cause my mom spells her title momma, and there a SO many variants: MAma, maMA, momma, mamma, mommy, mammy, mom, I've even seen 'mam', ma... It's funny there're so few by comparison father nn's.
Thx agn, Y :)
So...what's the relationship 'tween Meter/Yaya, etc? I notice here the 'p' becomes 'b'; in Hebrew, Av becomes Abba, dif being one dot in the v/b, and -a.
I've just grown cur'us 'bout it, 'cause my mom spells her title momma, and there a SO many variants: MAma, maMA, momma, mamma, mommy, mammy, mom, I've even seen 'mam', ma... It's funny there're so few by comparison father nn's.
Thx agn, Y :)
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Actually, Yaya is more or an informal name for grandmother (such as "granny"). More "fomal" words include "ProMETer" and "ProMAMme".
As far as links between Greek and Hebrew are concerned, little has been written. For ages, I am trying to find the out-of-print book *Hebrew is Greek* by Joseph Yahuda (Becket Publications of Oxford, England 1982) which traces the linguistic affinities between the two languages and suggests that Hebrew has been heavily influenced by Greek.
As far as links between Greek and Hebrew are concerned, little has been written. For ages, I am trying to find the out-of-print book *Hebrew is Greek* by Joseph Yahuda (Becket Publications of Oxford, England 1982) which traces the linguistic affinities between the two languages and suggests that Hebrew has been heavily influenced by Greek.
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Sounds in'resting. I'll have to keep a weather eye out for that. I have noticed a lot of similarities. For example, Samekh and lower-case Sigma are simply mirror-image. But then, there are several similarities to English I've noticed: lo=no, zeh is used for is, ha- = the, ehrehv = evening, both say four-teen/ten, and more that I've forgotten. The grammar is more like Spanish, therefore probably Latin.
Thanx again, Y :)
Thanx again, Y :)
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I discovered two copies of Hebrew is Greek. The first was obtained for me by my senator from the Congressional Library. the other copy that was found by my county library on interlibrary loan was in the library of the Univ. of North Carolina. I could only keep each copy for two weeks, but I managed to photocopy the most useful chapters in that time. The scholar who wrote this book must have had great courage to propose it. But truthfully only 8000 copies were printed. Certainly Amazon would have been able to find copies for sale had they not been assiduously removed from circulation by someone or some group.
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