TH-N-Y-N – ‘extension, amplification of form’

This word is derived from the root נון, which contains every idea of extension, of amplification in bodies, whether in number or in volume. This root, governed by the sign of reciporcity ת, is applied…to marine animals, either on account of their mass, or on account of their prodigious fecundity. (The Hebraic Tongue Restored, Fabré d’Olivet, p. 51)