Re: What's the etymology to Chemosh, god of the Moabites?

lorad474_at_cs.com
Date: 02/20/05 

Date: 19 Feb 2005 17:38:16 -0800

Libertarius wrote:
> Herman Rubin wrote:
>
> > In article
<Pine.LNX.4.44.0502081449210.25941-100000@lab.oregonvos.net>,
> > Matthew Montchalin <mmontcha@OregonVOS.net> wrote:
> > >Herman Rubin wrote:
> > >|Matthew Montchalin <mmontcha@OregonVOS.net> wrote:
> > >|>Does anybody know what etymology might exist for Chemosh, god of
the
> > >|>Moabites? How certain are the vowels here? What might the
place-name
> > >|>'Moab' come from?
> >
> > >|>I have a book that says the language of the Israelites and the
language
> > >|>of the Moabites was just about the same, but for a few vowels
being
> > >|>different, and a little bit of the vocabulary was different.
Since
> > >|>this is all over my head, I thought I'd post a general query in
Usenet.
> >
> > >|According to Genesis, "Moab" (Moav in Hebrew) comes from
> > >|"me av" (from father), which is supposedly from Lot's
> > >|daughters getting their father Lot drunk and having a child
> > >|from him. Whether this is correct or not is, of course,
> > >|highly debatable.
> >
> > >Does 'b' turn into 'v' a lot in, um, ah, Aramaic?
> >
> > Hebrew and Aramaic are extremely similar in pronunciation.
> > The same letter is used for 'b' and 'v' (there is another
> > also used for 'v' in some places'), and this was probably
> > an aspirated form. I believe that in this position it
> > would have to have the aspirated sound.
> >
> > But the "turning" was from Hebrew into Greek; it was
> > always expressed as 'beta' in the translation from
> > Hebrew to Greek, and the 'beta' became 'b' in carrying
> > the words over to English, as in 'Job', 'Caleb', etc.
>
> ===>But in MODERN Greek the "beta" is pronounced as
> "vita", the letter "B" being pronounced as a "V". -- L.

Hence Slavic.