On Wednesday, October 31, 2001, at 11:07 AM, Tim May wrote:
for base/foundation, so the cognates amongst the Semitic languages are obvious. I checked for Hebrew cognates, but am not yet convinced the connection is obvious.
(I don't have the American Heritage Dictionary of Semitic Roots, or whatever it is called, though I do have the AHD of Indo-European roots, one of my favorite browsing sources.)
The Web has the AHD sources of IE words, but not (yet) the Semitic sources.
Being curious, I did some more digging in online etymologies and dictionaries and found several transliterated versions of "foundation" into Hebrew. (The word "foundation" shows up in dozens, even hundreds, of Biblical passages, so we have lots and lots of old Aramaic and Hebrew appearances.) Here's one I found at this site: http://www.biblestudytools.net/Lexicons/Hebrew/heb.cgi?search=foundation&version= kjv&type=eng&submit=Find Things like "yahcad" and "muwcahd" and "cuwdah" foundation hdwoy y@cuwdah Sure sounds like "kaida" or "qaida" to me. And Asimov was Jewish, so this proves that "Hari Seldon," which is Arabic for "America will be conquered in the 17th cycle after the Greys established their bases in New Mexico," was in league with the Rastafari Bilderberger colonizers of the holy lands. --Tim May "Extremism in the pursuit of liberty is no vice."--Barry Goldwater