אתמול

Hebrew

Etymology

Prothetic form of the now literary תְּמוֹל (təmol, tmól). Compare Aramaic אֶתְמָלִי and Akkadian ittimali (timāli with prefix).

Pronunciation

• (Modern Israeli Hebrew) IPA^(key): /(ʔ)etˈmol/

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Adverb

אֶתְמוֹל • (ʔɛṯmol, etmól)

1. yesterday

References

• Klein, Ernest (1987), A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the Hebrew Language for Readers of English‎, Jerusalem: Carta, →ISBN, page 60
• H865 in Strong, James (1979), Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible