I was recently asked about the etymology of the word סְנִיף snif   - meaning "branch," as in the branch of a bank or the local bra...

In the Tanakh, there are two words for razor for shaving. The more common one, תַּעַר ta'ar , is found in five verses : Bamidbar 6:5, 8:...

'When discussing hiflig , I mentioned that while one definition is "exaggerate", that's not a use common in Hebrew today. ...

A few months ago, we discussed the root peleg  פלג. I noted the following: The cognate פלג provides even more words. As with פלח, the root ...

A reader asked about the etymology of  אוֹלָר olar  - "pen knife" - since Klein reports that the word is "of unknown origin....

This is a short one, but I thought it was interesting. The Hebrew word for helmet, kasda   קַסְדָּה (or in the Mishna , קַסְדָּא) comes from...

One of the fun things when doing etymological research is discovering two related words, that you previously had no idea were connected, but...