Arabic-L:LING:ahara

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Date: 16 Nov 2007
From:Michael.Schub at trincoll.edu
Subject:ahara

modern Hebrew  /rahiiTiim/  =  'furniture'  comes from the Aramaic
root  r-h-T, which in turn was taken from the (Biblical) Hebrew  
root  /r-w-S/
=  'to run.'  The idea is as in 'real estate' (French 'immeubles,  
[not mobile])
  is contrasted with mere
furniture (Fr. meubles [ 'mobiles']).

                 Mike Schub

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