A proposed etymology for "Shaumau" based on šammā (height)

 My friend Robert F. Smith, in his “Some ‘Neologisms’ From Mormon Culture,” wrote the following:

 

A. van Selms has similarly distinguished a Hebrew form šammā, “height,” as in Ugaritic tm and šmm.

 

The reference is:

 

Kurt Bergerhof, Manfried Dietrich, Oswald Loretz, and Johannes C. de Moor, Ugaritic-Forschungen [International Jahrbuch für die Alterumskunde Syrien-Palästinas [Kampen, Netherlands: Verlag Butzon & Bercker Kevelear 1970], 2:264

 

I tracked down the reference; here is the scan:

 

 

 

 

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