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√ʔMN
▪ ʔMN_1 ‘…’ ↗…
▪ ʔMN_2 ‘…’ ↗… ♦ Semantic value spectrum in ClassAr (acc. to BAH2008): ‘to be safe, to be secure; guard, keeper; trust, to be trusted; belief, faith, to believe’
▪ From WSem *√ʔMN ‘to be firm, confirmed, reliable, faithful, have faith, believe’ – Huehnergard2011.
▪ (Huehnergard2011:) Engl amen, from Hbr ʔāmēn ‘truly, certainly’; Mammon, from Aram māmonā, prob. from Mishnaic Hbr māmôn, prob. from earlier *maʔmōn (‘security, deposit’); both from Hbr ʔāman ‘to be firm’, cognate of Ar ↗ʔamina.
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