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E 0736 ROCC , ROCK †
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English "rock" for "distaff" is out of use .
Like Old English "rocc" it is of Germanic origin
H 0069 א ר י ג
Concept of root: spinning
Hebrew word
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pronunciation
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English meanings
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א ר י
ג
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arig
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spun,
yarn
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Related English words
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rock ;
Old English : rocc
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Comparison between European words and
Hebrew
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Languages
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Words
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Pronunciation
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English meanings
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Similarity in roots
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Hebrew
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א ר י
ג
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arig
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spun, yarn
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a r . g
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English
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rock †
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distaff
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r . ck
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Old English
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rocc
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distaff
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r . cc
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Dutch
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rokken
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rokken
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to spin ;
distaff
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r . k
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Proto-Semitic *ARAG --- *ROK- Proto-Germanic
As more often, the Hebrew word has a confirming "A" as an added first letter, with the same functions as a consonant in the shaping of words. .
Note:
- Hebrew. Here we find a noun "arig" which refers to the result of an activity, "spinning", that comes before that of "weaving". But we see in entry E 712 "rag" ( Hebrew 0061 arag), that this root means precisely "weave". Consequently we must think that the root "A R G" in Hebrew originally comprehended both phases of textile fabricating : spinning and weaving. In fact we find another word for spun and yarn, "
ט
ו
י, thewai" from a root "
ט
ו
ה , thawą" saying "to spin". In the Bible this root was used for "to warp", an intermediate activity between spinning and weaving. This root is found in Entry E 0937 (Hebrew 1002).
Note:
- Proto-Semitic. The root of this entry is the same we see in Entry E 0712 (Hebrew 0061) and can be supposed to have been present in Proto-Semitic:
"* א
ר
ג, Aleph R G ".
Note:
- Dutch. Once more we find a Dutch word as the nearest one to Hebrew. By the way, this also goes for that mixing or confusing of those two actions of spinning and weaving. The Dutch call a spider a "spin" and his web a "spinneweb". This they call than to be "ragfijn", or "gossamer, filmy". English also says "cobweb" and a Dutch "spinnekop" is a spider of the type that does not make a web. Confusion one can always create in building languages and words.
Note:
- Proto-Germanic. Sister words of those in the above table are found in Old Norse "rokkr" and Old High German "rocko". Probably Proto-Germanic had "*R (O) K-".
Note:
- Indo-European. We have no information from outside Germanic, that would allow a hypothesis different from that for Proto-Germanic. Neo-Latin languages loaned this word from Germanic, as for example Italian "rocca = distaff". Yet Indo-European must have had a word for "distaff" and it may have been similar to Proto-Germanic.
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Created: Tuesday 6 November 2007 at 22.30.54 Updated: 26/09/2012 at 13.29.44 |
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