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E 0114 (TO) BRAY
The origin of " to bray"
within Indo European is unknown .
H 0276 ס י ר ב ה , ס
ר
ב*
Concept of root : to bray
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Hebrew word
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pronunciation
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English meanings
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ס י ר ב ה,
ס ר ב
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*baras, hivris
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to bray
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Related English words
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to bray
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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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ס ר ב *
ס י ר ב ה
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*baras;
hivris
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to bray
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b r .s
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French
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braire
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brèr
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to bray
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b r .
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English
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to bray
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to bray
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b r .
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Hebrew *BARAS --- *BRA-I-RE Old French
To readers that might not know the meaning of this English word : to bray is the sound of the equine called ass. It comes from French "braire". Many tongues have an own word for this. Spanish is "rebuznar", Italian "ragliare", German "Iahen", Dutch says "I-A" like German to define the sound of the ass, but the verb is "balken". The similarity between Hebrew and French may be casual.
Note:
- Hebrew uses only the composite verb "hivris", and in this case we suppose it does not have a causative function, but an intensifying one, so that the basic verb "*baras" also has meant the braying of an ass.
Note:
- Proto-Semitic. Regretfully we have no information from outside Hebrew that could give a basis for a hypothesis.
Note:
- Indo-European. The word ""braire" in Provencal was used also to say "to cry, weep, resound", but the same happens with the words for donkey's braying in other languages, like Dutch "balken". The origin of French "braire" is simply unknown and we have only the, limited, similarity with Hebrew. There are just uncertain guesses about Late Latin. But the Old French word may be as well of Germanic as of Latin or even Celtic origin. For none of them we have any proof.
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| Created: Tuesday 6 November 2007 at 22.30.54 Updated: Monday 9 July 2012 at 13.29.22 |
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