A-D-M-H – ‘elemental earth principle, ground of creative being’

This word which is formed from that of Adam, and partakes of all its significations…has undergone continuous restrictions, until it signifies only the earth, properly speaking…The name of Adam…lends the mind easily to Adamah, its elementary principle, homogenous earth, and like unto Adam; primitive earth, very far from that which is obvious to our senses, and as different from the earth, properly so-called, as intelligible, universal man אדם, is different from particular and corporeal man, אנוש. (The Hebraic Tongue Restored, Fabré d’Olivet, p. 72)