Traces of Hebrew in Basque?

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Isaac Fried
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Traces of Hebrew in Basque?

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My attention was called recently to the fact that the English "tree" is the Basque "zuhaitz", in which I seem to see the Hebrew זו-ה-עץ. Is this a common thing in this mysterious language?

Isaac Fried, Boston University
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