Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Yitzhak Sapir" <yitzhaksapir AT gmail.com>]

On 5/23/06, Yitzhak Sapir wrote:
> The last line in the wikipedia article notes what is apparently
> a vague sound correspondence between "hemp" and "cannabis" (h = c,
> m = n, p = b).

I see now that http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?search=hemp
(which I consider a somewhat more reputable source than wikipedia) also
reconstructs hemp to a very similar word, suggesting indeed a very
early borrowing.

Yitzhak Sapir
http://toldot.blogspot.com