From: "Isaac Fried" <[email protected]>
I see the root (LM, or merely LM, as consisting of the combination of the
single-consonant root L, 'lofty', and the single-consonant root M,
'massive, vast'. in the HB, (OLAM is mostly applied to time, but is
nowadays used also for space, in the sense of 'universe, world'.
In the word ELEM, the reference is to the body.
The root עלם appears also in the form אלם, as in אלומה, 'sheaf, large
pile', and אולם, 'large hall'. Nowadays אלים is 'bully, intimidator'.
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Your "method" of assembling components looks like Isidore of Seville's
etymologies.
Corpus is called corpus because cor- is from corruptus and -p- is from
perit.
It's no longer accepted...
Arnaud Fournet
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