ymn / Semitic roots

Examples of words with the root ymn: Benjamin.

ymn

West Semitic noun *yamīn- and East Semitic noun *yamin-, right, right hand, south (on the right-hand side when facing east).

1. Benjamin, from Hebrew binyāmîn, son of the right hand, from yāmîn, right (hand), south. (The Israelite tribal name binyāmîn 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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