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E 1016 WUNIAN
The Old English word "wunian" is of Germanic origin .
H 0209 ן ו ע
Concept of root :dwelling, sheltered place
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Hebrew word
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pronunciation
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English meanings
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ן ו ע ;
ן ו מ ע
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‛on;
ma‛on
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shelter;
dwelling
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Related English words
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Old English : wunian
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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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ן ו ע
ן ו מ ע
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‛on ;
ma‛on
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shelter;
dwelling
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‛o n
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German
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wohnen
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wonen
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to dwell
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wo n
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Dutch
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wonen
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wonen
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to dwell
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wo n
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Old English
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wunian
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to habitate, dwell, stay
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wu n
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Proto-Semitic *‛ON --- *WŌN- Proto-Germanic
This entry is related to the number E 1017 (Hebrew 0668) in which we will see a different but originally related Hebrew root .
Important is that we find here a Hebrew " Ayin " correspond with a Germanic " W ". This occurs more often.
Hebrew , on the basis of the root of this entry, has built a noun using a normal initial M : "
מ
ע
ו
ן , ma‛on", with the meaning of " dwelling " .
" מ
ע
ו
ן
ה
, ma‛onà", with that same meaning of " dwelling " .
Besides this there is another noun, "
ע
ו
נ
ה , ‛onà ", that stands for "cohabitation".
These nouns confirm the basic root "ע
ו
ן
, Ayin W N ", as found in the above table.
The dwelling of these German and Dutch words is meant to be that in a house one habitates. The first part, "WO" is a typically Germanic development of the so important letter "waw" we find in Hebrew and very old Greek. This Waw can be a consonant "W" or even "F" or become a vowel "O" or "U".
In Germanic words that show similarity with Hebrew often instead of that Hebrew "waw" we may well find the consonant "W" and the vowel "O" or "U" together ! So in the case of "wunian" and " wonen ", dwell in a sheltered place. In Old English it is "WU", still consonant plus vowel.
Note:
- Proto-Semitic. The same root is found in Arabic "ma‛an = dwelling" and in Syriac with "מ ע ו נ א" with a perhaps related meaning of "region, district ". We presume that the Hebrew root was used already in Proto-Semitic : "* ע ו ן, Ayin, Waw, Nun ".
Note:
- Proto-Germanic. There are many similar words, such as Old Saxon "wonon", Old High German "wonen" and Old Dutch " wonon" . Proto-Germanic probably had "*W Ō N-". One should be careful not to consider the words of this entry related to not unsimilar ones meaning "pleasure, love" like Latin "Venus", Old Indian "vanati = he loves" or German "Wonne = delight".
Note:
- Indo-European. An interesting possible cognate is found in Avestan "vanghaiti = dwells, resides". But this is not sufficient for a hypothesis for Indo-European different from Proto-Germanic.
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| Created: Tuesday 6 November 2007 at 22.30.54 Updated: 05/10/2012 at 14.43.30 |
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