Douglas Fyfe Posted Friday at 02:52 AM Share Posted Friday at 02:52 AM I was having a chat yesterday about loanwords and remembered this is something that came up in a seminar once but with no happy resolution. Accordance tagging gives (לל) = loan lexeme when a word's origin is surmised to be not Hebrew (but rather Phoenician, Akkadian, Arabic etc). There are some psalms for instance with a particularly high rate of loanwords, but short of hovering over every word, is there a way to search for that tagging, which could potentially turn up an interesting graph showing areas with high loanword frequency for further investigation? I know there's an amount of subjectivity and conjecture, but it would be at the very least a start. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ken Simpson Posted Monday at 07:04 AM Share Posted Monday at 07:04 AM Sure - just search for the root ll i.e. type +ll in the search bar. Then you can analyse the results You can do it in a construct search too. I will post a screenshot if you want to see it. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leopold Green Posted Monday at 08:50 AM Share Posted Monday at 08:50 AM Yes please that would be really interesting to see Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Allison Posted Monday at 02:25 PM Share Posted Monday at 02:25 PM 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Douglas Fyfe Posted yesterday at 03:07 AM Author Share Posted yesterday at 03:07 AM too easy. thanks. now I need a search which will scroll the first line of HALOT for the relevant lexemes to tell me which are likely loanwords even though they have a Hebrew root. For instance, דלת is Hebrew for door, while the form דל (in Ps 141) is listed in HALOT as Phoenician. So while there is a Hebrew root (which is allegedly, according to the tagging, דלה), it is a loanword, but a search for לל won't disclose it. I guess this area is one where technology won't do my work for me! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ken Simpson Posted 18 hours ago Share Posted 18 hours ago Re the CONSTRUCT way of doing it.... 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ken Simpson Posted 4 hours ago Share Posted 4 hours ago 19 hours ago, Douglas Fyfe said: too easy. thanks. now I need a search which will scroll the first line of HALOT for the relevant lexemes to tell me which are likely loanwords even though they have a Hebrew root. For instance, דלת is Hebrew for door, while the form דל (in Ps 141) is listed in HALOT as Phoenician. So while there is a Hebrew root (which is allegedly, according to the tagging, דלה), it is a loanword, but a search for לל won't disclose it. I guess this area is one where technology won't do my work for me! Yeah sorry. If there's a way to do this it's beyond my ken (boom-tish). 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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