Reconstruction talk:Proto-Semitic/ʔil-
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Phoenician: 𐤀𐤋𐤌 phoenician mem.pngphoenician lamedh.pngphoenician aleph.png (ʾlm) pl el-, il-(uh)- given plural form; What does this all mean. o.O — This unsigned comment was added by 82.40.180.138 (talk) at 10:24, 12 January 2012.
- What specifically are you asking about? The suffix .png means Portable Network Graphics and is the suffix for a certain kind of graphic image. So phoenician_mem.png is the image of the Phoenician letter mem. Same for the other two letters, lamedh and aleph. Phoenician reads right-to-left. —Stephen (Talk) 16:36, 12 January 2012 (UTC)
When it says el and il uh what does it mean ok? — This unsigned comment was added by 94.172.200.83 (talk) at 10:08, 31 January 2012.
- Are you asking about the difference between the letters e and i in this term? If so, they are the same thing. Some languages and dialects pronounced a sound that was closer to i, others a sound that was closer to e. Still others pronounced it closer to uh or to ah. No difference in meaning or spelling, just different pronunciations. —Stephen (Talk) 10:28, 31 January 2012 (UTC)
Enlil[edit]
Why is it listed as related to the root il-? It is a Sumerian name, meaning "Lord of the Wind/Breath/Mandate".--Manfariel (talk) 12:16, 6 July 2020 (UTC)