Talk:אנוכי

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אנוכי

An IP just added an adjective section "selfish", but my cursory research suggests it might be a noun "egotist" instead. - -sche (discuss) 01:06, 1 March 2012 (UTC)

This is interesting. I wasn't familiar with this form, and it's not in any of my dictionaries — they only have אנוכיי (anokhií, “selfish”), with an extra י — but it's a logical backformation from אנוכיות (anokhiút, “selfishness”), and google:"הוא אנוכי" and google:"מאוד אנוכי" turn up plenty of relevant hits. Based on its form, and on those hits, I'd agree with the anon that it's chiefly an adjective. (Full disclosure: those searches are both of the sort that really would turn up adjective uses. But I tried to find noun uses as well, and couldn't.) —Ruakh_TALK 01:37, 1 March 2012 (UTC)

Thanks for checking! I don't speak any Hebrew, so I'll take your word for it. :) - -sche (discuss) 01:52, 1 March 2012 (UTC)

Do we use context tags to distinguish Biblical from Modern Hebrew? If so, should this adjective have a "modern" tag? - -sche (discuss) 01:52, 1 March 2012 (UTC)