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ArchivesRe: is the word jubilation directly related to Jubal: who is mentioned in The Book of Genesis
in reply to a message by Anneza
In fact, we don't know, the etymological ground of Latin jubileum is a bit shaky and it COULD be borrowed from Hebrew or evolved from Proto-Italic. Relations are more complicated by the fact, that a root like "yoo" can always be recreated by onomatopoeia. The Wiktionary entry sums it up quite well: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/jubilee
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