I still am not quite sure how this stupid thought-meme originated, but it couldn't be farther from the truth of the actual story of Arabic words in Hebrew. Thread.... There *were* people during the Hebrew revival (incl. Ben Yehuda himself) who strongly advocated for incorporation of Arabic loans & neologisms derived from Arabic roots, but the actual impact of those efforts amounts to little in Hebrew as it actually exists and is used today.

This notion seems like it might have snowballed around an interesting but unsurprising kernel of truth: the Hebrew grammarian tradition — including things like the formal analysis of roots as triliteral — developed out of the Arab tradition. Deliberate grammatical thinking about Hebrew in the Middle Ages was profoundly influenced by the Arab tradition, so much so that it wouldn't be too much of a stretch to say early Hebrew grammarians were basically continuing the Arab grammarian tradition with a different language

No. You don't get to take one of the many proposed etymologies for Retjenu and put it forth in such a way as to imply that there's something like a scholarly consensus around it. There's like one guy made this argument in the 80s and it didn't really catch on. Your fucking JSTOR-jaunts aren't a substitute for actual familiarity with scholarly literature.

This account is from kookville.

Look, it's one thing to argue that the Philistines may have arrived from the Aegean and been Indo-European speakers. Lots of people have argued that. But... First, there's every indication that the Philistines, whatever their origin, adopted local Canaanite ways of being very quickly.