Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] words with the same root letters
Date: Sun, 9 Jan 2011 20:33:14 -0500
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;