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Appendix II
Semitic Roots |
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| ENTRY: | ymn. |
| DEFINITION: | West Semitic noun *yam n- and East Semitic noun *yamin-, right, right hand, south (on the right-hand side when facing east). 1. Benjamin, from Hebrew biny mîn, son of the right hand, from ymîn, right (hand), south. (The Israelite tribal name binymîn should perhaps instead be understood as the “southerner” and to be compared to a people called “sons of the right/south” in Akkadian texts of the time of Hammurabi.) 2. Yemen, from Arabic yaman, right side, south, Yemen. |
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