I don't think they are related, Greek ara is said to have an IE etymology, and I didn't see anyone saying that harey is borrowed from Greek. Seems like one of those nice coincident cases of similar meaning & sound.They may not be related
Do you have a reference for this?הרי comes from הנה, with the same sort of change that changed בן to בר in Aramaic. In fact perhaps this happened in Aramaic first, and Hebrew borrowed it from Aramaic.
Thanks for the link, its really niceIt's not so easy to explain, other than perhaps to call it an "emphatic declarative particle".
See this episode of the Streetwise Hebrew podcast for details: Surely You Know What I'm Referring To
I think I saw it somewhere, but cannot remember where. However, I just remembered that I've also seen a contrary claim that Aramaic ארי, originally ארו, really comes from the root ראה. Either way, it seems to be of Semitic origin.Do you have a reference for this?
No problem!Thanks for the link, its really nice