Talk:זיהום

I suppose the word is a deverbal from pi'el, which may be attested in Job? BDB gives Aramaic and Arabic cognates. Here's the Syriac cognate in J. Payne Smith. ←₰-→ Lingo Bingo Dingo (talk)  14:53, 21 November 2020 (UTC)
 * It belongs to that verb, yes. Are you asking if zihem is attested? It's in very common use in modern times (a google books search for מזהם or לזהם will confirm that). I'm not sure about pre-modern attestation. — Mnemosientje (t · c) 09:45, 22 November 2020 (UTC)
 * No, I am asking for confirmation whether the word is indeed a deverbal, so that the derivation is verb > noun. ←₰-→ Lingo Bingo Dingo (talk)  10:43, 22 November 2020 (UTC)
 * Yes, nouns of this pattern (קיטול) are always action nouns derived from pi'el verbs (and for that reason they, like pi'el verbs, also have a dagesh in the second root letter, as e.g. at טיפול. — Mnemosientje (t · c) 11:02, 22 November 2020 (UTC)