L-A – ‘indefinite expansion’

This root is the symbol of the line prolonged to infinity, of movement without term, of action whose duration is limitless: thence, the opposed ideas of being and nothingness, which it uses in developing the greater part of its compounds. It is in general, an indefinite expansion, an absence without term expressed in an abstract sense by the relations, no, not, not at all. Definite direction, that is to say, that which is restrained by means of the assimilative sign כ, is opposed to it. See כה or כן. (The Hebraic Tongue Restored, Fabré d’Olivet, p. 377)