| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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Appendix II
Semitic Roots |
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| ENTRY: |  yy. |
| DEFINITION: | Common Semitic interrogative stem *ayy-, which?, where?. 1. Job, from Hebrew iyyôb, perhaps from an early Northwest Semitic dialectal name meaning “where is the father?”, from iyy, where?, akin to Hebrew ê, where? (ôb, father; see b. Alternately, iyyôb may be akin to Hebrew  y b, enemy; see yb.) 2. Jezebel, from Hebrew îzebel, where is the prince?, from î, akin to ê, ayy, where? (zebel, prince; see zbl). |
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