LINGUIST List 17.2008

Mon Jul 10 2006

Sum: Ancient Hebrew and Greek Swadesh Lists

Editor for this issue: Jessica Boynton <jessicalinguistlist.org>

Directory         1.    Piers Kelly, Ancient Hebrew and Greek Swadesh Lists
Message 1: Ancient Hebrew and Greek Swadesh Lists
Date: 07-Jul-2006
From: Piers Kelly <pierskellyYAHOO.IT>
Subject: Ancient Hebrew and Greek Swadesh Lists


Regarding query: http://www.linguistlist.org/issues/17/17-1778.html#2

Thank you for all the replies to my query regarding Ancient Hebrew and Greek Swadesh lists.

In summary: *** Alice Faber wrote that "Chaim Rabin had a Swadesh list for Hebrew and related languages in his 1975 paper 'Lexicostatistics and the Internal Divisions of Semitic', in the volume Hamito-Semitica, edited by James and Theodora Bynon, Mouton (pp. 85-102)"

*** Israel Cohen listed a number of searchable online Hebrew and Greek sites based on Strong's numbers:

These are:

http://www.Crosswalk.com (or bible.crosswalk.com/Lexicons/Hebrew if you know the number). Words with no hyperlink cannot be directly lined to the interlinearised bible Here: http://bible.crosswalk.com/InterlinearBible/

http://www.htmlbible.com/sacrednamebiblecom/kjvstrongs/STRINDEX.htm

http://www.eliyah.com/lexicon.html - searchable by Hebrew, Greek or English word

http://www.studylight.org/lex/heb/

http://www.accordancebible.com/modules/details.php?ID=127

http://www.tgm.org/bible.htm

http://www.blueletterbible.org/search.html

http://www.bitsbytescomputer.com/store/customer/product.php?productid=6914&cat=100&page=1

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BPMaps/ - Phoenician body part terms inferred from the Hermes and Aphrodite anthropomorphic maps at the BPMaps website

*** Dr Ghil`ad Zuckermann has compiled a Hebrew Swadesh 100 list ***

Of all these I would recommend http://www.eliyah.com/lexicon.html as the best online resource. There is no advertising so the pages load very quickly and the glosses are good. I am in the process of compiling Hebrew and Greek Swadesh 200 lists based on Robert Blust's system. I can make it available upon request in the form of a fairly primitive excel spreadsheet.

Thanks again,

Piers Kelly.

Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics

Subject Language(s): Greek, Ancient (grc) Hebrew, Ancient (hbo)