A-B – ‘productive cause, determining (seminal) motive force’

1. אב awb; a primitive word; father, in a literal and immediate, or figurative and remote application):

The potential sign united to that of interior activity produces a root whence come all ideas of productive cause, efficient will, determining movement, generative force. All ideas of paternity. Desire to have: a father: fruit. (The Hebraic Tongue Restored, Fabré d’Olivet, p. 287)