GD 1040         CULE

H 0358            ה ל ג

Concept of root : waterpit

Hebrew word

pronunciation

English meanings

ה ל ג

gullà

pit, waterpit

Related English words

none

Comparison between European words and Hebrew

Languages

Words

Pronunciation

English meanings

Similarity in roots

Hebrew

ה ל ג

gullà

pit, waterpit

g . l .

Middle Dutch

cule

cϋle

pit, waterpit

c . l

 

 

Proto-Semitic *GULL- --- *GŪL Indo-European

 

 

These words have more than one meaning, but especially that of a pit, prepared or made better to receive and hold water.

 

 

Note:
  • Proto-Semitic and Proto-Germanic. Only few cognates seem to be known of these two words. Hebrew "gullà" has a cousin in Akkadian "gullu" .Middle Dutch "cule " in older Norwegian "koyle". It has become "kuil" in modern Dutch. The hypothesis for Proto-Semitic is a word "*gull-", with a root "*ג ל , G L " and that should be right. This also means that this Hebrew word is not related, as some believe, to the root "G . L. L " with the concept of " to roll", seen in entry E 0375 (Hebrew 0365).

     

    Middle Dutch "cule ", that has become "kuil" in modern Dutch, as already mentioned, has found a cognate in in older Norwegian "koyle". There may have been a Proto-Germanic form "K Ū L".

 

Note:
  • Indo-European. As a possible cognate scholars present Greek "γυαλον, güalon", that indeed means "hollow, pit, basin, valley". It is possible that Indo-European had a form "*G Ū L-".

 

 

 

 

 

 
Created: Tuesday 6 November 2007 at 22.30.54 Updated: 19/10/2012 at 13.52.54