Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Nir cohen - Prof. Mat." <nir AT ccet.ufrn.br>]

you may be right, just like (B+Y+, i guess we have two possible etymologies:

1) the root $BL meaning "wake, tail, track, rim" as in 
$BYL, $BLUL, $WBL, $YBWLT etc. the uniting element is "a line".

2) $B LUL, where LUL may mean spiral. just like the LULYM you quoted
from 2 Kgs. 

these are the only ones i can think of.

nir cohen 

On Fri, 3 Jun 2011 06:55:33 -0400, Isaac Fried wrote
> Does $BIYL שביל 'path', "yield" $ABLUL שבלול 'snail'?
> 
> Isaac Fried, Boston University
> 
> On Jun 3, 2011, at 1:43 AM, Pere Porta wrote:
> 
> > also $BYL=path --> $BLWL=snail.

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