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| Nov 16, 2020 at 2:27 | comment | added | Luke Sawczak | Ah, interesting. Thanks for the clarification. | |
| Nov 16, 2020 at 2:01 | comment | added | Safa Alai | Shekel is clearly a unit of weight in modern Hebrew which comes from the root skl. That is true. However, I am talking about an older origin, Sumerian, and the assertion here is that the measurement of weight was a later derivation of the original word Shekel. However, my assertion is based on Bernerd Leitaer, "The Future of Money" and it is possible that his assertion is wrong. | |
| Mar 21, 2020 at 6:32 | comment | added | Luke Sawczak | That doesn't appear to be the right etymology for "shekel". It's derived from a verbal root meaning "to weigh". | |
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| Dec 2, 2011 at 4:06 | history | answered | Safa Alai | CC BY-SA 3.0 |