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GD 1040 CULE
H 0358 ה ל ג
Concept of root : waterpit
Hebrew word
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pronunciation
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English meanings
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ה ל ג
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gullà
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pit,
waterpit
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Related English words
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none
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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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ה ל ג
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gullà
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pit, waterpit
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g . l .
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Middle Dutch
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cule
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cϋle
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pit, waterpit
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c . l
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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-".
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Created: Tuesday 6 November 2007 at 22.30.54 Updated: 19/10/2012 at 13.52.54 |
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