A very wonderful characteristic of ancient languages such as Aramaic is their words intuitively sound like their meaning. This is something we have pretty much lost in the English language. This is known as Onomatopoeia.
For example, the word "Odin" to me seems to have good Onomatopoeia, it sounds like the name of someone important. However, his wife's name "Frigg" does not have good Onomatopoeia - in my opinion it doesn't sound queenly or goddess-like.
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A very wonderful characteristic of ancient languages such as Aramaic is their words intuitively sound like their meaning. This is something we have pretty much lost in the English language. This is known as Onomatopoeia.
For example, the word "Odin" to me seems to have good Onomatopoeia, it sounds like the name of someone important. However, his wife's name "Frigg" does not have good Onomatopoeia - in my opinion it doesn't sound queenly or goddess-like.
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