Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Isaac Fried <if AT math.bu.edu>]

Now days $MIYR, 'dill'. Its root $MR appears to me to be a variant of  
CMR of which we have CEMER, 'wool', and CAMER-ET,  
'treetop' (interestingly enough, English, with its hundreds of  
thousands of words does not have a specific equivalent).  Also of  
ZMR, of which we have ZMOR-AH, 'twig', and ZEMER, 'song', YMR, SMR,  
of which we have MA-SMER, 'nail, metal twig'; and possibly also of  
TMR, of which we have the tree name TAMAR.

Isaac Fried, Boston University

On Jan 9, 2011, at 4:01 PM, David Kolinsky wrote:

> (SMR) In Arabic : (stay put > stand around >)
>                                    to chat, converse;
>                                    to turn brown;
>                                    to fasten, nail; pin, rivet, peg,
>                                    corn;