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Hebrew
bīnā - understanding
(HALOT 123)
Reconstruction
PWS
*byn
- to (be) separate(d)
(DRS 62; Kogan 2015: 80)
the priority of the verbal root over the nominal formation
*bayn-
(Lipiński 1997:468) rather than vice versa remains to be substantiated (cf. Blažek 2007:32)