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E 0026 AMATEUR ,
AMATIVE
The word "amateur" comes from French and is based on
Latin.
"Amative" comes from Late Latin .
H 0140 ם ע
Concept of root : tribes
companion > to like, love
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Hebrew word
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pronunciation
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English meanings
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ם ע
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‛am
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of
common origin, companion
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Related English words
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amateur,
amative
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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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ם ע
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‛am
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of common origin,
companion
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‛a m
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Latin
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amare
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amare
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to be attached to,
to love
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a m
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Italian
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amare
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amare
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to love
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a m
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French
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aimer
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èmé
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to love
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a m
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English
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amateur
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amateur
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a m
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Proto-Semitic *‛AM --- *AM- Latin
The sound "M" seems to have been naturally chosen to indicate the sense of origin, belonging and affection. Out of these things grows love. Thus the "M", pronounced with the nearly indispensable help of vowels, has given words like "mamma", "amare", "amicus", "meta" and "me", all words we refer to in this list of similarities . Our pages (Hebrew 0001_aa19) and (Hebrew 0001_aa20) touch this phenomenon.
Note:
- Latin is responsible for the specific development in which this root is used to express the
concept of "love". But the origin of the root is wider and talks about the fact that people of the same tribe or clan are attached to each other, stick together, are companions in many things and at the end like and even love each other.
Note:
- French and Italian have , on the track of the still less definite choice of Latin, developed for their words "aimer" and "amare" an accentuation on the love between man and woman.
Note:
- English has not loaned the basic words "amare" or "aimer", but uses a number of derivations
of the root in question. Some examples are given in this entry and in entry E 0560 (Hebrew 0141).
Note:
- Proto-Semitic supposedly has the same root
"*ע
ם
" found in Hebrew and many other Semitic tongues. It is seen in Phoenician, Moabitic, Aramaic, Syriac, Ugaritic, Arabic and OS Arabic.
Note:
- Indo-European. No sound etymology is available for Latin "amare". There is agreement that "amare" is related to "amicus", found in entry E 0028 (Hebrew 0151) and "amita" of entry E 0057 (Hebrew 0152). An opinion says that the root is "pre-Indo-European", and this must be true if there is a common origin with Semitic.
Some scholars hypothesize an older Latin "*camare" and through this link Latin "amare" to the Sanscrit root "kam-" = to desire", found in Kama Sutra, the classic Indian text on eroticism. But this root refers to specific physical desires and does not express the concept of "belonging, attachment, love" in general as does "amare". This Sanscrit root "kam-" may well be related to the Greek root "*gam-" in "γαμος, gamos = sexual union", that later acquired the meaning of "marriage". It is also related to Old Norse "gaman" for "sexual enjoyment" and then also for other pleasures.
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| Created: Tuesday 6 November 2007 at 22.30.54 Updated: 18/11/2011 at 12.23.15 |
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