Root m-m-l

Phoenician ↔ Hebrew

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

Phoenician

phn

root: 𐤌-𐤌-𐤋

root: m-m-l

יַם הַמֶּלַחyam hamélakhname
Dead Sea (a lake in the Middle East in Palestine and Jordan, noted for high salinity and for its banks being the lowest land-based elevation on Earth)
יוֹמָם וָ לַיְלָהyomám valáylaadv
day and night, continuously
האיים המלדיבייםha'iyím hamaldiviyímname
Maldives (an archipelago and country in South Asia, located in the Indian Ocean off the coast of India)

Canonical root family: m-m-l