קצף - fury?
קצב - rhythm?
Joel | 06.05.06 - 12:37 pm | #

A few comments:

First off, ??? is the shaphel of ???, and not the other way around.

???? is certainly related to ??: it is the hiphil form of the same, and basically means 'stopped sleeping'. The word for 'awaken' is more commonly the hithpael of ????.

So far as the relation between ? and ? is concerned, this all comes down to the chronological development of Semitic languages. In proto-Semitic, it is believed that a letter ? was employed. This became ? in both Hebrew and Aramaic, but later Aramaic began to employ ? in its stead. The Aramaic of the Bible is (with very few exceptions) Late Aramaic, so it employs the ? for these words.

Keep up the blogging! This site is great, and I'm adding a link to it on mine.
aniboker | 06.05.06 - 2:17 pm | #

Oh no, my fonts didn't work!!
1) sheqetz is the shaphel of qotz
2) heiqitz is the hiphil of qetz; wake is the hithpael of (root) 'rr
3) relation between tzaddi and ayin; proto-semitic letter (t with dot underneath); became tzaddi in Hebrew and Old Aramaic, tet in Late Aramaic.

Sorry about that.
aniboker | 06.05.06 - 2:19 pm | #

Joel -

Steinberg connects קצף with the קצ family of words.

Ketzev meaning rhythm is related to קצב - to cut, to allocate.

Aniboker -
Of course you're right about the Shaph'el - I fixed the syntax.

I agree about hiketz - just didn't see it mentioned in any source.

Thanks for the link on your blog!
Dave | Homepage | 06.05.06 - 11:08 pm | #