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Been done. See page 5.

Oo, forgot to add: Given that east is generally considered "up," north and south are also known as "left" and "right," respectively. In fact, the Aramaic translation of Onkelos renders Beréshit [Eng. Genesis] 13:9--"If you [go to] the left, then I will go to the right, and if the right, then I will ...

Note that Modern Hebrew has settled down on which terms it uses: tzafon, darom, ma`arav, and mizrach I said that.... -*Darom: Meaning unkown (at least to me). It's a contraction of דר רום dar rom , literally meaning "inhabitant of the heights". It's a reference to the midday sun, which would appear...

Hebrew has a few different words for most of the compass point names: North: -*Tzafon: From tzafun, meaning "hidden." South: -Yam: "Sea." -Téman: A location in Biblical times (named after the grandson of 'ésav [Eng. Esau]) and the modern-day name for Yemen, although the exact identity of the Biblica...

Both. If you want to specify half-brother as opposed to half-sister, you'd say parent-(male offspring). If you want to specify maternal half-sibling as opposed to paternal, you'd say (female parent)-offspring. If you wanted to specify a paternal half-brother's wife's maternal uncle, it'd be (male pa...

אשה נעלה נעלה נעלה נעלה את הדלת בפני בעלה "Ishsha na'ala na'ala na'alah na'ala et haddelet bifne ba'alah." A high-classed woman wore her shoe, locked the door in front of her husband. The words for "shoe" (and therefore "to wear a shoe") and "to lock" share a triconsonantal root (N-'-L), and the wor...

The one I'm working on has just four: -Parent -Offspring -Sibling -Spouse All others are expressed in a chain leading from the subject to the target. A grandparent wold be a parent-parent, for example, and a mother-in-law would be a spouse-parent. A cousin would be a parent-sibling-offspring. Sexes ...