mivreshet is a new word invented by eliezer Ben Yehuda, based on the English brush, in a Hebrew form. Bialik prefered the word mis'eret (from hair), but it did not catch. On other times, Bialik won: his matos won over the aviron, invented by Ben Yehuda, which also resembles the French word avoin.
The BenYehuda dictionary, available through Bialik institution, and an on-going work of putting it online via the benyehuda.org project, would have told you that, probably. The problem is that it is only updated till a bit after Ben Yehuda's time. On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 2:01 AM, Dotan Cohen <[email protected]> wrote: > Geeks, help me here! Where can I find the etymology (word root) for > non-Biblical Hebrew words? Words such as "petria", or "mivreshet"? An > online source would be great, but I'm willing to buy a book if need > be. > > Thanks! > > -- > Dotan Cohen > > http://gibberish.co.il > http://what-is-what.com > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-il mailing list > [email protected] > http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il > -- Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda. http://ladypine.org
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