One for the Hebrew geeks
Tuesday, June 6th, 2006 05:09 pmMost of you have probably heard me wibbling before about Punic—Carthaginian—names, about how, having been dragged through a linguistic hedge backwards, most people don't realise from them that the language is Semitic, and very closely related to Biblical Hebrew.
Now
papersky is wanting to write a book with Carthaginians in it, needs Punic names, and thinks I can help. ("Come on, pleeeeease write me a Carthaginian baby name book! You know you don't have anything more exciting to do this morning!" :o)) Problem is, I'm good at Biblical Hebrew, less good at Phoenician, and know very little about Punic, which diverged somewhat from the parent language. (As I pointed out, I can just about understand name meanings in it, like I would imagine
papersky (who is Welsh) would names in Gododdin (i.e. the P-Celtic-speaking kingdom in present-day Scotland, not the work in Welsh).
So, can anyone help with names in Punic (beyond citing appropriate books to read)?
My other question concerns Meleagros's:
Now
So, can anyone help with names in Punic (beyond citing appropriate books to read)?
My other question concerns Meleagros's:
So if you are Syrian, Salam, if you are Phoenician,I wonder where naidios comes from; what its cogates (if any) in Hebrew are. It's odd; I would expect it to be salām or something like it; after all, the Syrians of that era were Phoenician (I think); and one theory of the origin of the name Salamis (the island off the coast of Attica) is that it comes from the Phoenicians for "peace".
Naidios, and if you are Greek, Chaire—say the same.