gml / Semitic roots

Examples of words with the root gml: camel, gamma, gimel.

gml1

Common Semitic noun *gamal-, camel.

camel; camelopard, from Latin, from Greek kamēlos, from a Semitic source akin to Hebrew gāmāl, Aramaic gamlā, and Arabic jamal, camel.

gml2

Common Semitic noun *gaml-, throwstick.

a. gamma, from Greek gamma, from Phoenician *gaml, throwstick (?), third letter of the Phoenician alphabet;
b. gimel, from Hebrew gîmel, gimel, alteration of Phoenician *gaml (see above).
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