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Where does “פּנים” come from?
פּנים (Yiddish) comes from Hebrew פָּנִים, from Proto-Semitic pan-.
פּנים
(Yiddish): face
Definitions
face
Ancestry of “פּנים”, step by step
Step
Language
Word
Meaning
1
Hebrew
פָּנִים
face
2
Proto-Semitic
pan-
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Words derived from “פּנים”
punim
פּנימל
ponem
geinponem
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