Of the about 160 surnames, practically all have been traced to Hebrew roots.
Shacharit comes from the Hebrew root שחר which means dawn.
It comes from a Hebrew root, "karav", meaning "to draw close or 'near'".
The Makuyas, thus, seek to restore this original spirit by returning to its Hebrew roots, and learning the Bible accordingly.
Like Scaliger, he rejected a Hebrew root, but also rejected the idea of unrelated language groups and considered them all to have a common source.
This Greek word for sugar stems from the Hebrew root that means "intoxicating".
Incidentally it may be remarked that he seems to have held the opinion that the Hebrew roots are not necessarily triliteral.
As of 7 June 2010, the twenty-million word database contained 4,056 Hebrew roots.
The origin of the word negev is from the Hebrew root denoting 'dry'.
Many suggested interpretations are based on the assumption that the word is a derivative of Hebrew verbal root n-ph-l "fall."