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גן

Inherited from Proto-Semitic, denominal from Proto-Semitic *g-n-n (“to protect, defend”), whence Biblical Hebrew גָּנַן (ganán, “to defend, to protect”), and so having the etymological sense of "a protected thing". Cognate with Arabic جَنَّة (janna) and Ugaritic 𐎂𐎐 (gn).

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c. 3500 BCEProto-Semitic

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