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Root ḥ-m-l

Hebrew ↔ Punic

Both languages share identical consonants at this root —ḥ-m-l↔ 𐤇-𐤌-𐤋. No Proto-Semitic sound change separates them here.

Hebrew

he
root: ḥ-m-l
  • חֶמְלָהkhemlánoun
    A compassion (deep awareness of the suffering of another).
  • חֲמוּלָהkhamúlanoun
    A clan
  • חָמַלkhamálverbT 1Sam.15.15
    to have mercy on, to feel sorry for
  • חמילchmielname
    Euphemistic form of the name of Bohdan Khmelnytsky (c. 1595–1657), a Ukrainian Cossack hetman who led an uprising against the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and signed the Treaty of Pereyaslav with Czar Alexis I of Russia.
  • בְּחֶמְלָהb'khemláhadv
    mercifully

Punic

pun
root: 𐤇-𐤌-𐤋
  • 𐤇𐤌𐤋𐤒𐤓𐤕proper noun
    '', most notably borne by general Hamilcar Barca.''
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Canonical root family: ḥ-m-l