Peter:
You remember previously I mentioned where the root where the verb #YM
to place is recognizably similar to $M that place, there. ...
... I have
noticed other words like N$H/N#H to put out of mind, ...
... ($Q/(#Q to
defraud, ...
... $QD/#QD to keep watch ...
... and other similar pairs. I have not
made a formal study of the phenomenon, just happened to notice it as I
was reading.
I have heard one argument that these represent copyist errors, but
they happen often enough, particularly in words like PR$/PR# to spread
out, used of hands as in getting ready for a hug, as in a cloth, net,
book, entrails of an animal for divination and so forth, dividing the
same action to different roots depending on the object being acted on, ...
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