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- "הבשר טעים, תודה!"
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I always thought res was related to ראש (rosh) and more directly راس (raas), and I was getting excited to add another cognate but apparently I can't :(
http://etimologias.dechile.net/?res
actually, it looks like there's hope after all! https://www.jstor.org/stable/27940355 (sci-hub.cc has a free copy of this article for those without jstor access)
At first I was mildly surprised someone spent a whole article discussing just this one potential cognate, but I feel like I learned a lot reading this, especially as a fellow cognate-seeker :)
Carne is meat. Res is more like "cattle", although I suspect that it's used as "beef" in Argentina or wherever jamusk is from. Beef is actually usually "ternera", at least in Spain. Technically this means "calf" (baby cow), like how we usually eat "lamb" instead of "mutton".
in portuguese meat is "carne" and beef is "bife".. I got surprised when I saw this snack bar in Jerusalem called קרנה (carne written in hebrew), asked myself if it's owner is brasilian... Or is there this word in hebrew too (carne)?
The semantic shift is actually smaller. בקר is also the Hebrew word for "cattle", that is cows as a collective noun. This was an earlier meaning. It was used in the phrase בשר בקר, which only in recent decades was shortened to just בקר.
I think it is. But more like this:
*basar - flesh
-Arabic bashar humankind
- Hebrew basar meat
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How do you do that? How do you respond to everything on the Hebrew board so quickly? Have a lingot!
Haha thanks. I don't get round to everything, but if I've already commented on a post I get an email when new comments come in, and if I can answer the question I try to find the time to do so.
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@Sarah Maybe its owner was someone who spoke Ladino, the Judeo-Spanish language, that preserved some archaic words from the times, when Spanish and Portuguese much closer and shared much more words than now.
That's a nice, romantic thought. My guess would be different: about 95% of restaurants in Israel are called in names that are mainly non-Hebrew; those in the business seem to consider Hebrew not sexy. Most often they'll turn to English, but it's not unheard of to turn to French or Spanish. I can imagine why "carne" would sound cool to them.
I think I entered the correct answer and was marked wrong and then corrected with the same as I entered???
I think I'm getting confused on when to use את. I would have inserted it in this sentence were it available as a choice. Why would that be incorrect? Thanks for insight.
The word את is used to introduce a direct object (sometimes). There is no object in this sentence.
"The" is not given as an option for the correct answer. The word given instead is "there".
