> You shouldn't expect to get it. Hebrew, like all real human languages,
> is generally arbitrary. Even if there was originally a semantic link
> between NGD "opposite" and NGD "tell", that link is not necessarily at
> all visible in the stage of the language we see in the Bible. There are
> many things in language which you just have to accept and learn, not try
> to explain.
Exactly. And aditionally be aware, that NGD in hebrew could potentially
(I haven't checked the lexica) present two different semitic roots:
N-G-D and N-G-D_ ...