Anyone know cognates for נָאַף, 'to commit adultery'?
Posted: Mon Nov 18, 2013 10:06 am
They seem strangely absent.
Before looking for "cognates" in other languages we should seek, methinks, the physical manifestation of the alluded act נאף NAAP. In Lev. 10:20 the Onkelos Aramaic translation of ינאף YINAP is יגוף YGUP, apparently of the root GP, NGP, GPP, 'pile, fall over'.
Thus, NAAP seems to be, on the one hand, a variant of NUP, 'lift', and on the other hand, of NAGAP, 'collide, impact'.
Similarly in Arabic.
Isaac Fried, Boston University