west▪ (Huehnergard2011:) Engl sycamine, from Grk sūkámīnos ‘mulberry tree’, from a Sem source akin to Qat sqmt (prob. to be read *suqāmat ‘planted’ < *‘made to stand’, pass.adj.f. of *Š-stem of *qāma ‘to stand’, cf. Ar qāma), whence also Ar sawqām, a type of fig tree, and Aram šiqmâ and Hbr *siqāmâ ‘sycamore fig (Ficus sycomorus)’. – sycamore, from Grk sūkómoros ‘sycamore fig’, perh. folk-etymological alteration of a word borrowed from the same Sem source as above (influenced by Grk sûkon ‘fig’, and móron ‘black mulberry’).