M-N – ‘figuration, determination of outer form’

This root, composed of the sign of exterior and passive action, united by contraction to the root אן, symbol of the sphere of activity and of the circumscriptive extent of being, characterizes all specificiations, all classification by exterior forms; all figuration, determination, definition, qualification. The kind of things, their exterior figure, mien, image, that is conceived; the idea that is formed, the definition that is given to it; their proper measure, number, quota. (The Hebraic Tongue Restored, Fabré d’Olivet, p. 391)