From phma@oltronics.net Fri Jun 01 14:02:26 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: phma@ixazon.dynip.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_1_3); 1 Jun 2001 21:02:26 -0000 Received: (qmail 43739 invoked from network); 1 Jun 2001 21:02:22 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.26) by l9.egroups.com with QMQP; 1 Jun 2001 21:02:22 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO neofelis.ixazon.lan) (207.15.133.23) by mta1 with SMTP; 1 Jun 2001 21:02:21 -0000 Received: by neofelis.ixazon.lan (Postfix, from userid 500) id 498C83C5B2; Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:27:50 -0400 (EDT) Reply-To: phma@oltronics.net To: Subject: Re: [lojban] Re: the muezzin's cry Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:22:28 -0400 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.0.29.2] Content-Type: text/plain References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <01060114275001.29552@neofelis> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: phma@ixazon.dynip.com From: Pierre Abbat X-Yahoo-Message-Num: 7444 On Fri, 01 Jun 2001, Invent Yourself wrote: >Was this word in existence before Islam though? Yes, and it has its cognates in Hebrew Eloah and Akkadian Ili (the latter is a word I remember from some children's version of Gilgamesh which had a few sentences of Akkadian in it). I still suggest {ala'uC} where C is some consonant. "Allah" sometimes occurs as "Allahu" where "-u" is the nominative ending; it also occurs as "Allahi" but Lojbanizing that would produce an invalid cmene. phma