Katyusha & Ekateros

In investigating the word katyusha, Balashon ends with writing:

And to give this some Hebrew connection, we see that in the Septuagint the word ekateros appears often as a translation for שניהם - "both" as in Bereshit 40:5. There are even those (if I understand correctly) who translate ekateros as "one and another", which connects it to the Sanskrit eka meaning one, and the Hebrew אחד echad.

It is interesting that he links rockets, the phrase "both" and the word "echad". So does my dream In Five Days.

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