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5 days agoNot all words that begin with “al” came from Arabic. Alphabet comes from the first two letters in Greek, alpha and beta. Those in turn come from The Phoenician aleph and beth. No Arabic to be seen.


Not all words that begin with “al” came from Arabic. Alphabet comes from the first two letters in Greek, alpha and beta. Those in turn come from The Phoenician aleph and beth. No Arabic to be seen.
There is a very good multi-episode podcast about this operation from earlier this year. Look for “The Rest is Classified”