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Canaanite has the following vocabulary layers: | Canaanite has the following vocabulary layers: | ||
# Most of the common words are inherited from Biblical Hebrew, however they often show drastic semantic drift or compounding. Example: ''sngúd'' 'a lot' comes from סעודה 'feast'. | # Most of the common words are inherited from quasi-Biblical Hebrew, however they often show drastic semantic drift or compounding. 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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