Adam and Eve were probably from western India, conveyed to the vast, marshy, flat region during the Glacial Maximum, where the Persian Gulf is, which is now an average of 150 feet underwater-300 feet maximum depth--exactly the amount of sea level rise at the start of the Holocene. Adam and Eve were driven east of this region, which is probably back towards their point of origin. Iran, Pakistan, and then west India. The land of Nod was east of Eden.
Nod is probably related to:
mad / mat / maṭ, nad / nat / KUR (𒆳) "mountain; (foreign) land, country; east, easterner, east wind; netherworld" in Sumerian and Akkadian.
nādu / nāṭu (நாடு) "country", "land", "earth" in Tamil
medina' (מדינה) "state, country, land, province, region, polity" in Hebrew.
medinī (मेदिनी) "earth" in Sanskrit.
batu** "rock", "stone" in Malay
This group of words really hammers home the idea of "Nod" being in the east.
I believe that the shift from /m/ in MAT () to /b/ in batu is a logical one since both /m/ and /b/ are voiced bilabial consonants. /b/ adds a plosive quality to /m/.
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