Sabbath

Wed Mar 26 17:23:55 UTC 2008

Dear Colleagues,
let me ask you to help me with your competence regarding the following 
question: What is the direct source of Persian shanbeh (shambe) 
'Saturday'? My main concern is the representation of Aramic -bb- as -nb 
/ -mb-. I know that in the early Balkan Greek vernacular, this sound 
change has also taken place, but here we have s- and not sh- (resulting 
in things like OHG sambaz-tag etc.). As fas as I know, the shift -bb- to 
-nb- / -mb- did not take place in Semitic (Aramaic/Hebrew etc.). So, my 
question is: Do we have evidence that the shift from shabbath > 
shan/mba(t) > shambe already occurred in Middle Iranian? (as far as I 
remember, MacKenzie's Pahlavi-English Dictionary  doesn't mention the 
term, neither does Horn)....
Thanks for any help, sorry for my ignorance and best wishes,
Wolfgang 

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