"Abital" translates to dewy (as in, morning dew)[4] or my father is [the] dew (Ab-i means "my father"; -i is possessive pronoun for "my").[5][better source needed]
The name refers to dew, the phenomenon of water droplets that occur on exposed objects in the morning or evening due to condensation.
William Dwight Whitney's Century Dictionary of 1889 defines "avital" as "pertaining to a grandfather; ancestral", giving its root as the Latin avus, lit.'grandfather'.[6] It is used thus in 1889 by Hubert Lewis's The Ancient Laws of Wales.[7]
Alternatively, Mount Avital/Tall Abu an Nada (Hebrew: הר אביטל, Har Avital, Arabic: تل أبو الندى, Tall Abu an Nada) is a mountain that is part of a dormant volcano in the Golan Heights.[9][10] It does not appear to have any correlation with the Avital moshav, being over an hour's drive away.[11]
^The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language. A - Cono. T. Fisher Unwin, the Century Company. 1889.
^Lewis, Hubert (1889). The Ancient Laws of Wales: Viewed Especially in Regard to the Light They Throw Upon the Origin of Some English Institutions. E. Stock. pp. 417, 418, 437, and 438.
^Bitan, Hanna: 1948-1998: Fifty Years of 'Hityashvut': Atlas of Names of Settlements in Israel, Jerusalem 1999, Carta, p. 1, ISBN 965-220-423-4
^South Lebanon and Vicinity 1976
^Golan Heights and vicinity 1994
^"Mount Avital to Avital". Mount Avital to Avital. Retrieved 2022-04-18.
^2 Samuel 3:4
^"Abital (fl. 1000 BCE)". Women in World History: A Biographical Encyclopedia. Gale Research Inc. Archived from the original on 6 April 2016. Retrieved 6 January 2013.(subscription required)
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