<div dir="ltr">The on-line version of the Ben Yehuda dictionary is still work in progress - early progress, and volunteers are needed. They are still in Aleph.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 10:12 PM, Dotan Cohen <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dotancohen@gmail.com">dotancohen@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div class="im">On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 16:13, Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda <<a href="mailto:ladypine@gmail.com">ladypine@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> mivreshet is a new word invented by eliezer Ben Yehuda, based on the English<br>
> brush, in a Hebrew form. Bialik prefered the word mis'eret (from hair), but<br>
> it did not catch. On other times, Bialik won: his matos won over the aviron,<br>
> invented by Ben Yehuda, which also resembles the French word avoin.<br>
> The BenYehuda dictionary, available through Bialik institution, and an<br>
> on-going work of putting it online via the <a href="http://benyehuda.org" target="_blank">benyehuda.org</a> project, would have<br>
> told you that, probably. The problem is that it is only updated till a bit<br>
> after Ben Yehuda's time.<br>
><br>
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</div>Thanks, Orna. Actually, I did hear that "brush" was the origin for<br>
mivreshet, which is why I went looking for an authoritive source. How<br>
about "pitria"?<br>
<br>
I took a brief look at the <a href="http://benyehuda.org" target="_blank">benyehuda.org</a> website, but upon a quick<br>
eying did not see a relevant link. Searching in the google-search in<br>
the corner didn't help, either. I will spend some time with the site<br>
later this week, surely there must be something relevant there.<br>
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Thanks!<br>
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--<br>
Dotan Cohen<br>
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</div></div></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda.<br><a href="http://ladypine.org">http://ladypine.org</a><br>
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