User talk:AK63

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I hate to have to revert something you put a good bit of time into, as at שרא, but we have very specific formatting, and your edits completely ignored it. Besides, our entries are arranged by spelling, so having an entry in a different script on the same page is completely wrong. In the case of Hebrew, we don't include niqqud in the page name, so we may have different words that differ quite a bit in pointing on the same page- but it still has to have all the same letters. Information about the Arabic would be appropriate as a cognate listed in the etymology section, or in the Descendants section of a Proto-Semitic appendix entry for the ancestral form. Chuck Entz (talk) 15:54, 26 February 2015 (UTC)Reply

The Latin word: Avunculus is composed of the Hebrew intial of av=אָב (father) & unculus.

AK63 (talk) 00:13, 22 November 2018 (UTC)Reply

No. It's from Latin avus. You have to be very careful with etymologies of words for family members, because they tend to be taken originally from baby talk, and baby talk is the same regardless of the language of the parents. Baby talk changes as the baby grows older, so there's some variation, and which variation goes with which family member, but, as an example, see mama (which includes English, Quechua, and Swahili with the same definition), Chinese 媽媽／妈妈, Proto-Semitic *ʾimm-, Proto-Dravidian *amma, Basque ama, Proto-Uralic *emä, Korean 엄마 (eomma), Malay emak, etc. Chuck Entz (talk) 03:34, 22 November 2018 (UTC)Reply

It's good to speculate since it may help us acquire new knowledge we could not as individuals find out on our own. But you have a distinct writing style, always insisting rather than merely questioning, which I suspect is turning people off. I'd also advise thinking things through a bit more .... at least some of your edits, even as speculation, are clearly incorrect, such as at talk:eam. Very few Christians learn to speak any form of Hebrew, so loanwords outside the context of the Bible are few and far between. I recommend considering the alternative explanations before looking for a Hebrew connection for words such as this. —Soap— 15:57, 1 June 2020 (UTC)Reply

well said, "soap"! I welcome your wise observations & will do my best to take them to heart (practice implementing)! thank you! :)

AK63 (talk) 20:22, 22 June 2020 (UTC)Reply