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Ray before:-> Well since "mom" doesn't suit, and since we cited
three or four languages with "z-m-n" as semitic style root for the vague meaning
of time, we could have "zom, zam, zem, zim, zum. ."zum" sounds like
it might be a duration of time and "zim" might be a point of time, with "zem" as
the vague word that could be either. Otherwise "zumzem" could be
"duration of time" and "zimzem" could be "point of time". That now
makes "zum" mean "duration" and "zim" mean "point" which could be used with a
spacial term to mean a "point in space", for example "zimsas" if "sas" meant
"space".
Ray later:-> !oh, there we go again! ."sas" is not phonologically
appropriate. Well "sar" or "sam" would have to do. ."zumsam" for a
"dimension in space", and "zimsam" for a "point in
space".
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