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Where does “זקן” come from?

זקן (Hebrew) comes from Proto-Semitic *ḏaḳan-.

זקן (Hebrew): beard; old person; elder, sage

Definitions

  1. beard; old person; elder, sage

Ancestry of “זקן”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-Semitic*ḏaḳan-—
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