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E 0103 BODY
The word "body" is of Germanic origin
H 0237 ד ד ב
Concept of root :
separateness
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Hebrew word
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pronunciation
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English meanings
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ד ד ב;
ד ד ב ו
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badad;
boded
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to be
separate, alone
being
separate, alone
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Related English words
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body
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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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ד ד ב -
ד ד ב ו
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badad ;
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boded
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to be alone, separate
being alone, separate
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b .d . d < b . d
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Middle High German
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botich, botech, potich
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botich, botech, potich,
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body
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b . t .
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English
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body
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body
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b . d .
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Proto-Semitic *BOD --- *BOD- Proto-Germanic
The English word "body" is of unknown origin, though various guesses have been made. We suppose that it indicates a clearly separate entity . Thus it would be possibly related to this Hebrew word, of which we will try to understand the origin.
Note:
- Hebrew " badad" most certainly has been shaped from an earlier root without the second D. In the development of this language the tendency to create, shape and change roots with two consonants into roots with three consonants is very generalized. And secondly, very frequently roots of two only consonants are a reduced form of earlier roots that had a waw as a third and central element.
Hebrew uses the same combination of consonants "B + D" , adding a prefix L in : "levad = alone", that can be compared with a more basic " separately " .
There were then two basic pronunciations. One with the Waw as a vowel "O" and another with the "waw" as a consonant W and two vowels added for the pronunciation. In our case such versions would have been for example "BOD" and "BAWED". The first one would be nearly identical to English "body". But also if these guesses we made are wrong, the similarity stands, on the condition that "body" carries the concept of an independent, separate entity.
Note:
- Proto-Semitic.
The root for " to separate" confirms nicely our supposition, as the hypothesis for Proto-Semitic here is "*B.W.D. = BUD", which brings us a nice step nearer to English. But there is much more, especially a word " * badan = body ", with a root "*B D N " that is not found in Hebrew, but in a number of other Semitic languages, such as Aramaic, Arabic, Ge'ez Ethiopian, Tigre, Amharic, Mehri and Harsusi. The "N" as third consonant is not present in English, but in Semitic it has certainly been added to an older root without the N. Probably it is a suffix used to shape a noun. Proto-Semitic may in that process have abolished the Waw or U or O from the pronunciation. The probable original root is as good as identical to English " ב
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ד, * B W D " or "*B O D".
Note:
- English "body" comes from Old English "bodig", which is an adjective with the suffix "ig". This shows that in fact the rumpword is "*B O D-". These words have cognates like "botich" in Middle High German as shown in the Table. The " T " is a typical German development and Proto-Germanic may have had in fact "*B O D-".
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| Created: Tuesday 6 November 2007 at 22.30.54 Updated: 23/12/2012 at 14.58.34 |
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