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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Goudy Old Style","serif";color:#1F497D">Very plausible. I would guess the former, not only “to call people,” but to indicate “it is the time,” simply because most words used for the
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> rmsberger@gmail.com [mailto:rmsberger@gmail.com]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Micha Berger<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Friday, September 14, 2012 10:09 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Mandel, Seth<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Mesorah] Paam...<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 9:49 AM, Mandel, Seth <<a href="mailto:mandels@ou.org" target="_blank">mandels@ou.org</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">pa'am, (Hapa'am odeh es Hashem),<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">pa'amosav (four taba'os on the four "pa'amosav" of the shulchan<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">vatipo'em (Vyhi vaboker vatipo'em rucho.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Goudy Old Style","serif";color:#1F497D">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.”</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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a lot about the history,, which sometimes are m’rafeinigra (or, more correctly, m’rafsin igg’ra), this is easy.
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Which might say something about the original use of a <i>pa'amon.</i> Perhaps to call people? Or maybe the word was coined
<i>bedavqa </i>for the <i>me'il</i>, where the <i>pa'amonim </i>rang with each step...<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><i>Shetir'u Batov</i>!<br>
-Micha<br>
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