"MarYah deception" ???

[Jerry]

Shlama Akhi Jerry,

Let's stick to one question (we're all over the place here!): what is the Emphatic for B_R_A (Beth-Resh-Aleph), "son"?

How do you form the Emphatic for a weak-III noun root ?

BRA
MYA
KSA

...etc ? These are no different orthographically from the root for "lord", MRA.

Let's just concentrate on this one question.

+Shamasha

To start with, the roots for the above three are BR, MY, and KS; son, water, cup. But only in BR will you actually find the singular absolute root BaR, "son". In water and cup, they are not in usage, yet the root (the phantom root I call it) is still MY and KS. Were they ever to write "cup" in absolute form, they would write it as KauS.

BRA, MYA, and KSA are the singular emphatics. the-son, the-water, the-cup. B:Rau`, Ma-Yau`, Kau-Sau`

Let's go to MR. My argument for what makes MR unique is that its root is actually MRA, Mau-Rau`. That is why it is so odd that Mau-Re` is used as the singular construct, and why a Yod is introduced to force Mau-Rau` (the absolute) into the singular emphatic.