[Mesorah] Paam...

[Mandel, Seth]

There are usually no good proofs in developments of meanings; BDB and everyone else.  However, a connection does not seem to be so hard to me.  The base meaning might be something like "step" (which is also an attested meaning in Hebrew).  From "taking a step," it is not very hard to the meaning "once, twice, X times).  It is also not far to the meaning of "foot" (not the anatomical one necessarily, but in the sense of "a foot of a chair/table etc."
After one gets used to the attested changes of meanings in languages like English, where we know a lot about the history,, which sometimes are m'rafeinigra (or, more correctly, m'rafsin igg'ra), this is easy.

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From: mesorah-bounces at lists.aishdas.org [mailto:mesorah-bounces at lists.aishdas.org] On Behalf Of Gershon Dubin
Sent: Friday, September 14, 2012 9:10 AM
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Subject: [Mesorah] Paam...

Can anyone make a connection for me between the words

pa'am, (Hapa'am odeh es Hashem),
pa'amosav (four taba'os on the four "pa'amosav" of the shulchan
vatipo'em (Vyhi vaboker vatipo'em rucho.

Gershon
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