nʕm / Semitic roots
nʕm
Central Semitic, to be(come) pleasant, agreeable.
1. Naomi, from Hebrew noʕŏmî, my delight, from nōʕam, delight, delightfulness, from nāʕēm, to be(come) pleasant, delightful.
2. anemone, perhaps a folk-etymological alteration (influenced by Greek anemos, wind) of an epithet of Adonis (the anemone having sprung from Adonis's blood in Greek myth), from Phoenician *hannaʕmon, "the pleasant one" akin to Hebrew na'ămān, a man's name (literally "pleasantness"), and na'ămānîm, a word describing a garden in Isaiah 17:10, perhaps a distortion of an epithet of Adonis
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