lmd / Semitic roots

Examples of words with the root lmd: lambda, lamedh, Talmud.

lmd

To learn, be(come) accustomed; in derived stem, to teach, instruct.

1. Talmud, from Mishnaic Hebrew talmûd, learning, from Hebrew lāmad, to learn.

2. Northwest Semitic noun *lamd-, ox-goad (?).

a. lambda, from Greek lambda, lambda;;

b. lamedh, from Hebrew lāmed, lamedh. Both a and b from Phoenician *lamd, ox-goad (?), eleventh letter of the Phoenician alphabet, akin to Hebrew malmād, ox-goad.

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