Presumably denominative from אֶבֶן (éven, “stone”), eventually from Proto-Semitic *ʔabn-.[1][2]
א־ב־ן • (ʾ-b-n)
- Related to stones.
- ^ A. Murtonen (1989) “ʾBN”, in Hebrew in Its West Semitic Setting, Part I, Section Bb, Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 80
- ^ Klein, Ernest (1987) A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the Hebrew Language for Readers of English[1], Jerusalem: Carta, →ISBN, page 3
- “א־ב־ן” in the Hebrew Terms Database of the Academy of Hebrew Language
- “א־ב־ן”, in Hebrew dictionary and conjugation tables, Pealim.com