The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.
Appendix II
Semitic Roots
ENTRY:
dgn.
DEFINITION:
Common Semitic noun *dagan-, grain. 1.Dagon, from Hebrew dgôn, from Phoenician *dagn, grain, storm-god. 2.Mudéjar, from Arabic mudajjan, permitted to remain, Mudéjar, passive participle of dajjana, to allow to remain, derived stem of dajana, to remain (< “to become tame, domesticated,” probably denominative from an unattested *dajan, grain). 3.Dagan, from Akkadian dagan, Dagan.
gôn, from Phoenician *dag
n, grain, storm-god. 2. Mudéjar, from Arabic mudajjan, permitted to remain, Mudéjar, passive participle of dajjana, to allow to remain, derived stem of dajana, to remain (< “to become tame, domesticated,” probably denominative from an unattested *dajan, grain). 3. Dagan, from Akkadian dagan, Dagan.
