The on-line version of the Ben Yehuda dictionary is still work in progress - early progress, and volunteers are needed. They are still in Aleph.
On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 10:12 PM, Dotan Cohen <dotanco...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 16:13, Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda <ladyp...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > mivreshet is a new word invented by eliezer Ben Yehuda, based on the > English > > brush, in a Hebrew form. Bialik prefered the word mis'eret (from hair), > but > > it did not catch. On other times, Bialik won: his matos won over the > aviron, > > invented by Ben Yehuda, which also resembles the French word avoin. > > The BenYehuda dictionary, available through Bialik institution, and an > > on-going work of putting it online via the benyehuda.org project, would > have > > told you that, probably. The problem is that it is only updated till a > bit > > after Ben Yehuda's time. > > > > Thanks, Orna. Actually, I did hear that "brush" was the origin for > mivreshet, which is why I went looking for an authoritive source. How > about "pitria"? > > I took a brief look at the benyehuda.org website, but upon a quick > eying did not see a relevant link. Searching in the google-search in > the corner didn't help, either. I will spend some time with the site > later this week, surely there must be something relevant there. > > Thanks! > > -- > Dotan Cohen > > http://gibberish.co.il > http://what-is-what.com > -- Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda. http://ladypine.org
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