Misnaic Hebrew and Its Relation to Biblical Hebrew and to Aramaic - A Grammatical Study #272521

The services of this scholar to Semitic philology have not yet received the recognition which they richly deserve. For though many of his etymologies may be fanciful and far-fetched, he has nevertheless succeeded in restoring to the Semitic vocabulary a large number of words hitherto held to be of foreign derivation, and, in the case of many others, in at least reopening the question of their etymology for further discussion.