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What is the only shoresh in lashon hakodesh that starts with the letter "Vav"?

Nouns are fair game.

(Don't tell me there is more than one - Varod or Vered is Aramaic, and the shoresh of Vidui does not start with a "vav".)

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  • I was gonna say ורד (meaning Rose). How do you know (or why do you say) it's aramaic?
    – yydl
    Aug 31, 2010 at 3:01
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    No instance of ורד in Tanach. Appears first in Mishnayos, Braisos, and Midrashim.
    – Yahu
    Aug 31, 2010 at 5:08
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    I wonder if R' JD Bleich would hold you spell "Varda" ending with an aleph [for transliterating non-Hebrew] and not a heh [for Hebrew] because it's not Biblical; that's his opinion about "Ilana."
    – Shalom
    Aug 31, 2010 at 16:03

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Vav vav, which spells 'vav'? (I thought of this independently but confirmed it here.)

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    Actually it's vav alef vav, but you got the source (or one of them so you get the check.) And for all you "I'll ask a question I know the answer to, answer it and give myself a check"ers: I knew the answer but I feel it is more important to generate genuine learning and research rather than feed everything to others.
    – Yahu
    Aug 31, 2010 at 5:16
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    Meaning "hook", I assume? (The vav in Paleo-Hebrew [ksav ivri] does look like a hook.)
    – Shalom
    Aug 31, 2010 at 5:25
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    Absolutely, that is why it is the vav that is used as the all around conjunction. See mi.yodeya.com/questions/2720/…
    – Yahu
    Aug 31, 2010 at 5:29
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    Is it used Biblically as a verb? (E.g. tav, which in Paleo looked like an X, means "mark", both as a noun and verb, Ezekiel 9:4.)
    – Shalom
    Aug 31, 2010 at 16:01
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    By the way Alex, WAF nailed it "hook", line and sinker! ;-)
    – Yahu
    Sep 8, 2010 at 0:32
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vav-ayin-dalet?

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    Sorry. Although that is a valid Hebrew word, its shoresh is "yud ayin dalet".
    – Yahu
    Aug 31, 2010 at 5:10
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If Shalom gets to use vav ayin dalet (a version of yud ayin dalet), I'll throw in vav hay bais (see Rashi Bamidbar 21:14)

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  • There's a lot of those, too.
    – YDK
    Aug 30, 2010 at 19:25
  • As well as nouns like valad and veshet.
    – YDK
    Aug 30, 2010 at 19:28
  • Or viter (ותר).
    – Alex
    Aug 30, 2010 at 20:17
  • Although Rashi says the vav is from the Yesod he just means that it is not a prefix. It takes the place of the Yud.
    – Yahu
    Aug 31, 2010 at 5:12
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    YDK, it was a nice try and you generated interest in the difference between a letter being "min haYesod" and being the actual letter of the shoresh. Yiyasher Kochacha!
    – Yahu
    Aug 31, 2010 at 5:19

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