Ver. 9.0
6 October
2008
History
of the Hebrew Language
By David
Steinberg
David.Steinberg@houseofdavid.ca
Home page http://www.houseofdavid.ca/
http://www.adath-shalom.ca/history_of_hebrewtoc.htm
Table 1
שׁכח In Ps. 137:5
Possible Proto-Semitic Origins
of the Root
שׁכח
Because
of the polyphony of ח in Biblical Hebrew (seen note to table 2 above) we should
recall that ḫ and ḥ were still distinct phonemes in the
biblical period.
Ugaritic has a root th-k-ḥ = shrivel which
fills the bill (see Barr p. 336 Select Bibliography below and GRAY, JOHN, THE
LEGACY OF CANAAN: THE RAS SHAMRA TEXTS AND THEIR RELEVANCE TO THE OLD TESTAMENT,
SECOND, REVISED EDITION, E. J. BRILL, LEIDEN 1965 pp 283-4)