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Canaanite has the following vocabulary layers: | Canaanite has the following vocabulary layers: | ||
# Most of the common words are inherited vocab from Biblical Hebrew, however they often show drastic semantic drift. Example: | # Most of the common words are inherited vocab from Biblical Hebrew, however they often show drastic semantic drift. Example: ''sngúd'' 'a lot' comes from סעודה 'feast'. | ||
# Celtic substrates | # Celtic substrates | ||
# Ancient Greek, Old Togarmite and Aramaic loans | # Ancient Greek, Old Togarmite and Aramaic loans | ||
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*ben- = agentive | *ben- = agentive | ||
**פנאַר ''pnar'' 'wolf' comes from pre-Xnánið *בן הר 'son-of mountain' | |||
*beδ- = place noun | *beδ- = place noun | ||
*bəd-/pd- = singulative of a collective noun | *bəd-/pd- = singulative of a collective noun | ||