Someday aliens will land and all will be fine until we explain our calendar

Re:Someday aliens will land and all will be fine until we ex... by jaza on Sunday September 25, 2022 @07:30PM (#32977574)

Shabbat (apart from meaning "rest") is also generally accepted as deriving from the Hebrew word for "seven", which is "sheva". And Shabbat is sometimes referred to in Hebrew as "yom shvi-i" ("seventh day").

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Re:Someday aliens will land and all will be fine until we ex... by snotrockets on Monday September 26, 2022 @02:03AM (#32979915)

Citation needed.

Klein Dictionary gives the etymology of שַׁבָּת as derived from שׁבת (to rest). I also found references suggesting the origin is with the Akkadian šapattum, the 15th of the month, but none related to שׁבע (which originates in Proto-Canaanite).

היּוֹם הַשְּׁבִיעִי (note the definite form!) is how Saturday is referred to in Genesis 2:2-3, without actually having the name שַׁבָּת. There's a some discussion about why שַׁבָּת isn't mentioned there as a name for the day, but regardless, your comment is the first time I read of the etymology of שַׁבָּת deriving from שׁבע.

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Re:Someday aliens will land and all will be fine until we ex... by jaza on Thursday September 29, 2022 @01:02AM (#33016598)

I know it's not a reliable source by itself, and it lists no citations for the sentence in question, but FWIW, I based my answer on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shabbat#Etymology :

> Other related words are ... to sheva (שֶׁבַע) meaning seven, as Shabbat is the seventh day of the week ...

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Re:Someday aliens will land and all will be fine until we ex... by xnzakg on Monday September 26, 2022 @10:45AM (#32983810)

Trying to read this on Android (in Materialistic) was fascinating, each line containing a Hebrew (?) word caused some of the words around it to switch places, but the words themselves are fine??

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Re:Someday aliens will land and all will be fine until we ex... by snotrockets on Monday September 26, 2022 @01:59PM (#32986149)

Unicode TR-9 is a hard beast to tame.

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