Misnaic Hebrew and Its Relation to Biblical Hebrew and to Aramaic

The services of this scholar to Semitic philology have not yet received the recognition which they richly deserve. For though many of his etymologies may be fanciful and far-fetched, he has nevertheless succeeded in restoring to the Semitic vocabulary a large number of words hitherto held to be of foreign derivation, and, in the case of many others, in at least reopening the question of their etymology for further discussion.