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E 0262 DŌK
The Old Saxon word " dōk
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H 0321 ק ד
Concept of root : thin cloth
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Hebrew word
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pronunciation
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English meanings
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ק ד
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daq;
doq
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thin,
fine;
veil, thin curtain
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Related English words
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Old Saxon : dōk
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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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ק ד
ק ד
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daq;
doq
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thin, fine ;
veil, thin curtain
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d . q;
d (o) q
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Old High German
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tuoch
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tuokh
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cloth
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t (uo) kh
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German
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Tuch
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tukh
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cloth
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t (u) kh
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Old Saxon
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dōk
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dōk
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cloth
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d (o) k
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Middle Dutch
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doec , doke
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duk,
doke
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cloth, film, veil
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d (o) k,
d (u) k
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Old Norse
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dūkr
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dūkr
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cloth, veil
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d (u) kr
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Proto-Semitic *DOQ --- *DŌK Proto-Germanic
This is one among many similarities one can see between Semitic and Germanic, without links to other Indo-European groups.
It is amazing how many small old words are similar between Middle Dutch and Hebrew. This is clearly seen in the comparison of meanings between Hebrew and Middle Dutch. Then we find sister words in sister languages of course. The Old Saxon word did not make it into Old English, as it seems. And German changed over to T instead of D .
Just to confirm a rule, the Vikings put an R behind this noun, as so often. Always without any real influence on the meaning of the root.
Note:
- Proto-Semitic. This root is seen in Aramaic "ד ק, doq = thin, fine" . Ugaritic uses it to say "tender" and Arabic "diqq" says as well "thin, fine". This two consonant root may well have been used in Proto-Semitic : "*ד ק. A pronunciation with a vowel " O ", as in many old roots, is probable.
Note:
- Proto-Germanic. The initial consonant in older and newer Germanic languages is a "D", with the exception of German and its predecessors, like Old High German "tuoh", that changed the "D" into a "T". The second consonant is "K", again with the , this time temporary, exception of Old High German "tuoh, tuoch"with a certainly rather voiced final "H", that became in modern German "Tuch" like "KH". The vowel varies between "U" and "O", with Old Saxon having an "O", whereas Middle Dutch changed from "O" to "U" ( spelled "OE"). Proto-Germanic probably had "*D O K-.
Note:
- Indo-European. We have no information that would allow a hypothesis for Indo-European different from Proto-Germanic.
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| Created: Tuesday 6 November 2007 at 22.30.54 Updated: 15/10/2012 at 14.51.09 |
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