Re: are El/ohim and Allah related?

On Nov 21, 9:49 am, Harlan Messinger
<hmessinger.removet...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Yusuf B Gursey wrote:
On Nov 17, 1:40 pm, Ramblin Bob <m...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I know almost nothing about Semitic languages, so maybe this is a
dumb question ... are Hebrew El and Elohim and Arabic Allah
related (since they both mean "God")?

there is no cognate of 'el in arabic

I always thought that el and elo(a)h were related. No?

probably yes, but that goes into the field of relationships between
different roots of which there is no definite theory.
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