![]() ![]() Ben Yehudah also shows creativity as for instance when inventing new words such as (1) mekarer (refrigerator), (2) mekonit (car over the archaic option of the ancient term- merkavah (chariot), or (3) borrowings from other languages such as Italian for ice cream. cannot do justice to the breath, scope, comprehensiveness, and creativity of Eliezer Ben Yehudah's multivolume history of Hebrew language which traces appearances of words and idioms across three millenia, not just centuries. The OED (for English language and Lit), Petite Roget (for French Language and Literature), and Kluge's Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache, preceded by Deutsches Wörterbuch von Jacob und Wilhelm Grimm. This is one of the greatest lexical works ever written. ![]()
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