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salmūn سَلْمون , var. salamūn 
ID … • Sw – • BP … • APD … • © SG | 15Feb2021
√SLM, SLMN, SLMWN 
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salmon – WehrCowan1979. 
From Lat salmō (gen. salmōnis) ‘salmon’. 
▪ Contrary to what one may expect, salmūn ‘salmon’ is not a modern borrowing from Engl or Fr, but (accord. to Dozy) already attested as early as C13.1
 
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▪ From Lat salmō (gen. salmōnis) ‘salmon’, »probably originally ‘leaper’, from Lat salire ‘to leap’ […], though some dismiss this as folk etymology. Another theory traces it to Celtic1 « – etymonline.com. In Engl where the word entered via oFr salmun, it replaced oEngl læx (< PIE *lax), the more usual word for the fish (ibid.).
▪ MSA has yet another expression for ‘salmon’: ḥūt Sulaymān, lit., ‘Solomon’s (big) fish’ – a popular reinterpretation of sal(a)mūn ? For Sulaymān cf. ↗s.v.
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SLW سلو 
ID – • Sw – • BP – • APD … • © SG | 29Mar2023
√SLW 
“root” 
▪ SLW_1 ‘...’ ↗...
▪ SLW_2 ‘...’ ↗...
▪ SLW_3 ‘...’ ↗...

Semantic value spectrum in ClassAr (acc. to BAH2008): ‘consolation, solace’. 
▪ The philologists derive salwà ‘quail’ from this root, but it has also been suggested that the word is a borrowing from Aram – BAH2008.
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SMː (SMM) سمّ/سمم 
ID – • Sw – • BP – • APD … • © SG | 29Mar2023
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▪ SM: (SMM)_1 ‘...’ ↗...
▪ SM: (SMM)_2 ‘...’ ↗...
▪ SM: (SMM)_3 ‘...’ ↗...

Semantic value spectrum in ClassAr (acc. to BAH2008): ‘poison, venom; pore of the body, very small hole, eye of a needle; hot, dust-carrying wind; people close to the self’ 
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