The Greek Prototypes of the City Names Sidon and Tyre
Evidence for Phonemically Distinct Initials in Proto-Semitic or for the History of Hebrew Vocalism
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5057488 |
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| Authors | Robert Woodhouse (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2004 |
| Volume | 124 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 237 |
| Publication date | 2004-04-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of the American Oriental Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0003-0279 • E-ISSN: 2169-2289 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/4132213 |
| OpenAlex | W2073632055 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 11 |
1. The once virtually standard affirmative answer to the first part of the question posed above was based on a belief that the initial of Gk. T6pog Tyre represented a direct reflex of Proto-Semitic (PS) *t while the initial of Gk. 1iS6v Sidon was different because it reflected PS *s, cf., e.g., Koehler/Baumgartner (1958 and 1983 s.v. sor II),1 Friedrich/R6illig (1970: 9), Hadas-Lebel (1981: 43f.), Segert (1993: 89).2 This has been replaced in Maria Amadasi Guzzo's third edition of Friedrich/R11lig (1999: If. n. 4) with what is probably now the generally accepted negative answer based on Steiner (1982: 66f.). An important feature of the argument, first noted by Wild (Steiner 1982: n. 117), is that Ugaritic does not distinguish between the initials of the two names any more than Phoenician or Hebrew do, a fact, incidentally, that appears to have been known to Segert well before 1993 (cf. Segert 1984: 198f., s.vv. sdynm et srm).3
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