[HANASHIR:16274] Re: Kol Tuv

[Jacqueline Guttman <jguttman...>]

Aha. I have not yet gotten past "tov" (remembered from childhood) and
"tovah". Thank you.

Jackie G.

> From: "I. Oppenheim" <i(dot)oppenheim (at) xs4all(dot)nl>
> Reply-To: hanashir (at) shamash(dot)org
> Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2003 09:46:15 +0100 (W. Europe Standard Time)
> To: Marge Eiseman/Andy Muchin <amme (at) execpc(dot)com>
> Cc: hanashir (at) shamash(dot)org
> Subject: [HANASHIR:16266] Kol Tuv
> 
> On Mon, 22 Dec 2003, Marge Eiseman/Andy Muchin wrote:
> 
>> Kol means "everything" and Tuv is a Yiddishized "Tov" which means good.
> 
> "Tuv" has nothing to do with Yiddish; it's plain
> Hebrew!
> 
> The word for "good" has the following forms in Hebrew:
> 
> - Adjective : Tov (masculine), Tovah (feminine) = Good
> - Adverb : Heiteiv = Well
> - Noun : Tuv = Goodness, Tovah = favour
> 
> So "Kol Tuv" means the same thing as "All the best" in
> English.
> 
> Kol Tuv!
> 
> 
> Groeten,
> Irwin Oppenheim
> i(dot)oppenheim (at) xs4all(dot)nl
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