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Re: New Limbed Cretaceous Snake

Quoting Danvarner@aol.com:

From this week's Nature:

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v440/n7087/abs/nature04413.html

The name of the new snake is _Najash rionegrina_, "najash" being derived "[f]rom Hebrew *Najash*, the legged biblical snake".

In case there are any Hebrew scholars out there, I'm curious: What does the <j> in "najash" correspond to in Hebrew? Yod?

Best,

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Nick Pharris
Department of Linguistics
University of Michigan

"Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity."
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