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Friday, September 18, 2015

ZIP CODE

WORD STUDIES



MODERN HEBREW IS CLEVER

Just out of pure curiosity I asked myself "how do you say 'zip code' in Hebrew"? So I discovered it is miqud...MiQuD מיקוד? WHAT IS THE M-Q-D ROOT? It just hit me, hit me like a ton of bricks. CODE in Hebrew is QoD...Mi means from....The o Switches to u to make the common XiXuX noun pattern "the code of where you are from" simple, genius, what clever word formation

It almost reminds me of NiQuD or vowel points

TWO OTHER RELATED WORDS

*address
Ktovet כתובת
*area code
QiDoMeT קידומת

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