2267: How לחם‎ (Lechem) is Related to नान (Naan)

There is a Proto-Semitic reconstructed root *laḥm- which broadly would have meant food, but in many of its descendents like the Hebrew לחם‎ (lechem) and Aramaic לחמא (lachma) it came to mean bread. That said, the Arabic لَحْم‎ (laḥm) also comes from this root, but here it means 'meat'. It is clear it hasn't always though, because a derivative of this Arabic word is the somewhat distant sounding Middle Persian LHMA which becomes نان‎ (nân) in Persian. This did have closer form in other languages like the Old Armenian loanword նկան (nkan); in turn this root lead to the Hindi नान (nān) and Urdu نان‎ (nān): bread which came to English as 'naan'.