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Re: [westasianconlangs] dragon

On Tuesday, January 20, 2004, at 05:10  PM, Adam Walker wrote:

--- Pavel Adamek <pavel.adamek@hidden.email> wrote:

Are there any cognates of the Arabic word
al-tinnin?
Are there any other Semitic roots for "dragon?"
      P.A.


Well there's Hebrew tannin or tannim (the spelling in
Ezekiel) which applies to both dragons and seaserpents
as well as other monsters appearantly.
Adam


It also means "crocodile".
|tanin|/|tanim| can also be ambiguous whether it means "(singular) crocodile/seamonster" or "(plural) jackals". 


-Stephen (Steg)
 "aru."