Talk:Tell eth-Thadeyn

Direction of Originality
"Thadyen" being the modern Arabic rendering of the original West Semitic "Shaddai"

Should this perhaps be the other way 'round? Arabic substituting sh with th  in a loan doesn't make much sense, but if we are talking about inheritance, Proto-Semitic  does become Hebrew. -- Trɔpʏliʊm • blah 15:16, 4 June 2009 (UTC)
 * When I read that line, I had the same reaction immediately. The original form is more likely to be much closer to "Thadyen" than to "Shaddai" as Arabic preserved the PS voiceless-th sound, while in Hebrew, the sound became sh. Probably a better rendering of this sentence should be:
 * "Thadyen" being the modern Arabic rendering of what became West Semitic "Shaddai"
 * I suggest rewriting this sentence. If nobody replies for a while (which seems likely as not much traffic seems to pass this article) I will try to adjust the sentence. — al-Shimoni  (talk) 15:47, 25 April 2011 (UTC)

Anachronism
The use of acronyms in Hebrew postdates El-Shaddai by over ten centuries. There should be some mention of this here.75.24.127.154 (talk) 11:20, 15 August 2010 (UTC)

Article disambiguation
This article needs to be split into three:


 * City
 * Deity
 * One of God's names in Judaism

Comments? --Dweller (talk) 10:37, 4 March 2014 (UTC)
 * If there's no objection, I'll proceed with this change in a couple more days. --Dweller (talk) 16:46, 6 March 2014 (UTC)