CH-M-SH – ‘heated compression; resistance’

V. חמש, five. This word expresses a movement of contraction and of apprehension, as that which results from the five fingers of the hand grasping a thing, pressing tightly and warming it. Its root is double. חם, the first, designates the effect of the second, מש, that is to say, the former depicts the general envelopment, the heat which results and the effect of the contractile movement impressed by the latter. (The Hebraic Tongue Restored, Fabré d’Olivet)