Talk:արքայ

Relation to PIE
Isn't there any potential connection to PIE *h₂ergʰ- or *h₃rḗḱs? BoghosBoghossian (talk) 16:21, 15 June 2019 (UTC)
 * No, the phonetics would be irregular. --Vahag (talk) 16:58, 15 June 2019 (UTC)

Aramaic origin
, can you please research the Aramaic word mentioned here? Scheftelowitz cites rkʾ, but CAL only has rkh. Which is correct? --Vahag (talk) 17:16, 15 June 2019 (UTC)
 * It’s the same. Trailing ā, which is widely needed for the emphatic state in Aramaic, is most commonly written, but it is written in Hebrew, and hence it also appears in Aramaic, interchangeable in some regions and a manuscript variant – to the extent that you can normalize to . Sokoloff has  and , citing for the latter a “Babylonian Talmud vocalized according to the Yemenite Oral Tradition” Jerusalem 1980. Fay Freak (talk) 17:49, 15 June 2019 (UTC)