Hi Stan! On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 09:52, Stan Goodman <stan.good...@hashkedim.com> wrote: > Dotan... > > Can you be more specific about the problem; can you give a concrete > example of a problem you would have to solve, and what you would expect > from "the book"? Is it to trace words from foreign-language origins > (like Nanas from Greek, for example)? Or something else? >
There are some Hebrew words that I'd like to know where they come from. Such as Petria - is this related to the Petri dish and the biologist for whom it was named? Is this just a coincidence that the words sound so similar? There are tens of other examples of curious words. > I'm sure you have googled and found the lots of hits from <hebrew > etymology> to be inadequate for your purpose. I have googled "Hebrew etymology" but of all the hits I find the etymology of words that have Hebrew as their root language. No dictionaries for Hebrew words' etymologies. > If that's the case, my own > reaction would be to write to the Hebrew Language Academy and ask for a > list of books. Or perhaps to walk into the University in Be'er-Sheva and > find which professor can point you to the right place. Or maybe to go > into their library and talk to the librarian. > I should in fact probably head into the university. Thanks. -- Dotan Cohen http://gibberish.co.il http://what-is-what.com _______________________________________________ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il