They're homonyms - the Proto-Semitic roots are <ayin><Hêth><mīm> (no
<ghayin> or <χêth>) so both 'roots' are probably etymologically
connected , but since both ideas are visible in Arabic, Aramaic, Phoenician (I
think) and Hebrew (I've only seen the food side in Ugaritic, but I'm
relying on a primer), the split in meaning must be at a very early stage of the
language, Proto-West-Semitic, if there's not any borrowing going on.
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