GR 1182          GANOS

H 0435            ן ח

Concept of root : grace

Hebrew word

pronunciation

English meanings

ן ח

ghen

grace, beauty, pleasure

Related English words

none

Comparison between European words and Hebrew

Languages

Words

Pronunciation

English meanings

Similarity in roots

Hebrew

ן ח

ghen

grace, beauty, pleasure

gh n

Greek

γανος

ganos

pleasure, beauty

g n

 

 

Proto-Semitic *GHAN --- GAN-OS Greek

 

 

If we take into account that in Modern Greek the G is pronounced GH, we do not consider this difference between the two words of this entry decisive. But in Modern Greek itself this specific word is no more used.

 

Note:
  • Dutch: Loanwords can have no place in our list of similarities .
    But it is interesting to know that the Hebrew word of this entry has been loaned into Dutch as a very common word: "gein, ghein" (originally spelled " ghein ") that stands for " fun, pleasure ". The loan took place via Yiddish. Dutch has many such loanwords from Yiddish. In the town of Amsterdam Jews were, before WW II of course, 10 % of the population . They spoke a Dutchified version of Yiddish with many words of Hebrew origin. There was no strife and the Jews influenced some on the local speaking and through that on the national language.

 

Note:
  • Proto-Semitic: This root has led , through the doubling of the second consonant, to "ח נ ן, GH . N . N", with the message of " to be gracious, to be benevolent". It is found with two consonants in Hebrew, in Syriac "ח ן, ghan" and Arabic "ghanna" ( with also the meaning of "to long for" ) and with three consonants in Hebrew, Aramaic "ח נ ן ghanan" and Akkadian "annu = grace". It may have been used in Proto-Semitic already in both versions "*ח ן, GH N" and "*ח נ ן, GH N N", though this last part is uncertain.

 

 

 

 

 
Created: Tuesday 6 November 2007 at 22.30.54 Updated: 27/10/2012 at 11.10.01