Thursday, March 29, 2007
Wacky Hebrew etymologies
From a review of the 1837
Complete Hebrew and English Critical and Pronouncing Dictionary
by William L. Roy:
Take a look, particularly, at the etymology it gives for the word
mol
מל, to circumcise:
"From
yom
, a day, an
al
, a yoke"
et cetera
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