Abstract
Abstract
No word for ‘tomorrow’ can be reconstructed for Proto-Semitic, and the attested words in both the ancient and modern languages vary greatly. Despite the prodigious variation and repeated innovation that we find, almost every attested word for ‘tomorrow’ has developed along the same semantic pathway, namely, from a word or root meaning ‘morning’ or ‘dawn’. Semitic languages also have special adverbs (or adverbial phrases) for ‘the day after tomorrow’, and sometimes even for days beyond that, and these exhibit a wider range of sources.
Publisher
Oxford University Press (OUP)