Its etymology, like that of "will", is a verb meaning "want", as in "he willed it to happen" - the remaining rare use of "will" as anNope. "Want" produced "will," and "will" produced "would."
independent verb has a regularised morphology but certainly the same origin.
You lecture me on the etymology of my language?
Anyway, etymology is largely irrelevant to current meaning.
Sure enough. And narrators employing ci-yiqtol did not dwell into its
etymological future tense. ...
It is not etymological future tense, as is clear from cognate languages.
... Note that deictic shifts and idioms are expectedly unusually common
in emphatic decidedly archaic narration like than in Tanakh.
It is archaic now, but it was not archaic when it was written, it was the
normal narrative form of the Hebrew of its time.
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