ʔbq / Semitic roots

Examples of words with the root ʔbq: abacus.

ʔbq

West Semitic noun *ʔabaq-, dust, chaff, whence denominative verb, to be(come) dusty.

abacus, from Greek abax, abak-, counting board, perhaps from Hebrew ʔābāq, dust.


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