Biblical Hebrew Forum

["George Athas" <gathas AT hotkey.net.au>]

| I know.  But I wonder where originally, far far back, the two words
| came from.  There must be a common something.


Not necessarily. It's probably more an accident of history that TB( and TWB 
have two letters the
same. Not a single root (as far as I have encountered) has ever accrued an 
extra `ayin. I'm sure
the case is that TWB was originally a 2-letter root (TB), but TB( was always 
a 3-letter root.

There are numerous instances of words with some identical root letters, but 
very different
meanings:

$MR and $M(
$LX  and  SLK
(MR and )MR

...to name but a small few.


Best regards,

GEORGE ATHAS
(Sydney, Australia)