Completely OT: Where can I find Hebrew etymology?

[Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda]

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.

On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 10:12 PM, Dotan Cohen <dotancohen at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 16:13, Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda <ladypine at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > mivreshet is a new word invented by eliezer Ben Yehuda, based on the
> English
> > brush, in a Hebrew form. Bialik prefered the word mis'eret (from hair),
> but
> > it did not catch. On other times, Bialik won: his matos won over the
> aviron,
> > invented by Ben Yehuda, which also resembles the French word avoin.
> > The BenYehuda dictionary, available through Bialik institution, and an
> > on-going work of putting it online via the benyehuda.org project, would
> have
> > told you that, probably. The problem is that it is only updated till a
> bit
> > after Ben Yehuda's time.
> >
>
> Thanks, Orna. Actually, I did hear that "brush" was the origin for
> mivreshet, which is why I went looking for an authoritive source. How
> about "pitria"?
>
> I took a brief look at the benyehuda.org website, but upon a quick
> eying did not see a relevant link. Searching in the google-search in
> the corner didn't help, either. I will spend some time with the site
> later this week, surely there must be something relevant there.
>
> Thanks!
>
> --
> Dotan Cohen
>
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>



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Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda.
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