ט־ו־בط ي ب

ṭ-w-b “good”

Proto-Semitic *ṭāb- 'good' is the tov of mazel tov and of yôm ṭôḇ 'good day', the Yiddish yontif. Ṭôbiyyāh 'Yah is good' is Tobias, and Yiddish tov became the everyday Dutch tof, 'great, nice'.

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Today3 of 4 words have reached English

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Words from this root 4

tofBiblical Hebrew → Yiddish → Dutch
yontifBiblical Hebrew → Mishnaic Hebrew → Yiddish → American English
TobiasBiblical Hebrew → Koine Greek → Late Latin → English
mazel tovAkkadian → Biblical Hebrew → Mishnaic Hebrew → Yiddish → English

Relatives outside the atlas

Biblical Hebrew	טוֹב	ṭôḇ	“good”
Biblical Hebrew	טוֹבָה	ṭôḇāh	“a favour, good thing”
Aramaic	טָבָא	ṭāḇāʾ	“good”
Arabic	طَيِّب	ṭayyib	“good, pleasant; OK”
Arabic	طُوبَى	ṭūbā	“blessedness”
Ugaritic	𐎉𐎁	ṭb	“good”