Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗noun
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryThe sixteenth letter of many Semitic alphabets/abjads (Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic and others).
From Proto-Semitic *ʿayn- (“eye”), particularly via Hebrew עַיִן (ʿáyin).
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