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E 0231 DAGGER
The word " dagger " is of Germanic origin .
H 0323 ר ק ד
Concept of root : to pierce
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Hebrew word
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pronunciation
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English meanings
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ר ק ד
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daqar
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to pierce, stab
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Related English words
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dagger
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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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ר ק ד
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daqar
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to stab, pierce
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d . q . r
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Late Latin
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daga
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daga
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short sword
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d . g
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English
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dagger
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dagger
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d . g . r
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Dutch
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dagge, degen
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dagghe;
deghen
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short sword
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d . g
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Swedish
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dagg;
daggert
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dag; daggert
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dagger
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d . g ;
d . g . r
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Danish
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daggert
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daggert
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dagger
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d . g . r
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Proto-Semitic *DAQAR --- *DAGGER Proto-Germanic/Celtic < *DĂG- Indo-European
Hebrew indicates the action of stabbing, English has only the noun for a smaller weapon . Late Latin had a short sword, a bigger weapon anyhow, and no consonant R in the word . German and Dutch are like Late Latin, together with the neo-Latin tongues, simply because the Latin word came from Germanic source. This explains why it had various spellings, such as "dagga" and "dagha", before being finally latinized in "daga" and even "daca".
Germanic has had contemporarily words with or withour final "R", but this also was the case in Celtic, with Breton "dager, dag", Welsh "deager, dagr" Irish "daigaer" and Gaelic "dag" (later also for a pistol ).
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- Proto-Semitic. This root is found in Aramaic and Syriac "ד ק ר, deqar = to pierce, stab" and in Arabic daqara with the same message. It was probably present in Proto-Semitic : "*ד ק ר, D Q R ".
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- Proto-Germanic English "dagger" is considered to have been derived from Late Latin "daga". This word is found in the neo-Latin languages. Its Portuguese version "adagua" has made people think of an Arabic origin, but the presence of the same root also in Celtic, Germanic, Slavic and Magyar has excluded this. The fact remains that English, like Danish, has the version with R as a third consonant, also found in one of the Swedish words. So "dagger" must be Germanic. If there would be any indication of a verb "*DAG" or a similar form with the meaning of "to pierce, stab" the word "dagger" would be like a noun expressing the instrument of the action But we have no indication of such a verb and remain with the noun that in Dutch and partially in Swedish was present also without final " R " . Proto-Germanic probably had "*D A GG e R and also a shorter "*D A GG-".
Note:
- Indo-European. As already menioned, Germanic has had contemporarily words with or withour final "R", but this also was the case in Celtic, with Breton "dager, dag", Welsh "deager, dagr" Irish "daigaer" and Gaelic "dag". It is probable that these words have an Indo-European origin and a hypothesis of "*D Ă G-" seems indicated. The addition of a third consonant " R ", found in both groups, but not in the Latin loanwords, would seem of later date. But then the problem remains why this third consonant ir present also in Semitic. On a different scale we have here the recurring problem of similarities between Semitic and Germanic, here together with Celtic, that find no correspondence in other groups of Indo-European languages.
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- German and Dutch have other words for "dagger". They say "Dolch" and "dolk", that exist as well in the Scandinavian tongues. And they have "Degen" for "sword". The problem of the consonant R remains. And anyhow the similarity with Hebrew is there.
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| Created: Tuesday 6 November 2007 at 22.30.54 Updated: 24/12/2012 at 14.38.47 |
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