Dragaera

Paths of the Dead prelude, notes.

David Silberstein davids at kithrup.com
Tue Jan 21 16:07:11 PST 2003

On Tue, 21 Jan 2003, Adina Adler wrote:

>
>David Silberstein wrote:
>>
>> (And for those who don't know, "emma" is Hebrew for "mother")

>Not really, since the Hebrew word for "mother" is pronounced with a
>long "e", and "emma" is generally pronounced with a short "e". 
>

Well, if you want to get linguistically nit-picky, "emma" is /derived/
>from the Hebrew for "mother".  And if you want to get even more
nit-picky, "eema" (with long "e") is Aramaic (note the terminal aleph;
the same goes for "abba"), while the correct Hebrew for mother is "em"
(short "e").