| BA(L)SAM BoSeM Bet-Sin-Mem BO-SEM________בשם _______[BSM] ROOTS: BALSAM is from Latin balsamum; it is a gummy plant resin used for perfume. BALSAMIC means fragrant.
בשם BoSeM is the term for the fragrant spices used in Temple worship. Spelled with aש Sin/S in Exodus 30:23, it is spelled בסם Boa$eM, with a ס Samekh/$, elsewhere. Both spellings render words which mean perfume and the verb "to be fragrant:"
Song of Songs 4:16 "Awake, 0’ north wind, come, 0 south wind! Blow upon by garden, that its perfume may spread." In Exodus 35:8 the similar fricative-nasal words are presented near each other in the Torah’s typical incremental repetition of comparable terms:
שמים SaMeeYM (spices), then סמים $aMeeM (incense). The fragrant סמדר $MaDaR, (blossom – Songs 7:13) should be a combination of סם Samekh-Mem (smell) + דר D-R (release), as דרור DROAR (freedom, release – Leviticus 25:19.) The release of spring smells.
For the built-in opposite of B-S sweet smells, see באש Ba'AHSH, to stink, at “BISON.” BRANCHES: BALM is from Greek balsamon (balsam). BASMATI rice is aromatic Indian rice.
If a BSM word of fragrance exists in Greek, Latin and Hindi, especially with an added L and T, it is not borrowed from the Semitic, but an Edenic word that no one (no adult) had to learn.
שום SHOOM (garlic- Numbers 11:5) is similar in Akadian (shumu). SMELL has no Indo European “root”. Beside the S-M smells above, a scent of something is like a sense of it . See “SIMULATION.”
How did BALSAM get the extra L ? Liquids (L,R) are occasionally added to Edenic roots. See “CALM.” Arabic changes Edenic קנה QaNeH, reed, stalk, to qalam, stalk, reed…. whence the writing quill CALAMUS. Hungarian kaLap is a cap.
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