E 0460          HORROR

The word " horror " is of Latin origin and related to Greek.

H 0445            ד ר ח

Concept of root : tremble for fear

Hebrew word

pronunciation

English meanings

ד ר ח

ד ר ח

ד ה ר ח

gharad;

ghared;

gharadà;

to tremble;

afraid;

fright, terror

Related English words

horror

Comparison between European words and Hebrew

Languages

Words

Pronunciation

English meanings

Similarity in roots

Hebrew

ד ר ח

ד ר ח

ד ה ר ח

gharad;

ghared;

gharadà

to tremble;

afraid;

fright, terror

gh r d

Greek

ορρωδια;

-

ορρωδεω

-

-

orrodia;

-

orrodeo

-

-

fear, fright, terror;

to be frightened, terrorized

. r (o) r . (d)

Latin

horridus

(h)orridus

horrid

h . r (d)

English

horrid

horrid

h . r (d)

 

 

Proto-Semitic *GHARAD > GHŎR > GŎR --- *GHŎR Indo-European

 

 

This entry is to be seen in relation to entry E 0461 (Hebrew 0386) and E 0462 (Hebrew 0572).

 

Certainly this Hebrew root is about trembling for fear and the accompanying feelings. And with the Greek one things are not different, as the verb "ορρωδεω , orrodeo" is used not only for to fear but also for "to tremble ". The basic interface would remain "*H . R" or "*H W R".

 

 

Note:
  • Greek. No etymology has been found for this root. That is a frequent phenomenon when we find a kinship with Hebrew. One of the causes is that, understandably, seeking etymologies usually is limited to what can be based on other Indo-European words. Probably Greek has doubled the "OR" element, a Greek habit, and in the process it may have eliminated an H that existed before, still following another Greek habit.

 

Note:
  • Hebrew in entry E 0461 (Hebrew 0386) and E 0462 (Hebrew 0572) shows us another root, " GOR", that has the message of "fright" and that we consider related to horror. In the end both roots are related. This also reinforces the similarity with Greek.

 

Note:
  • Proto-Semitic. This Hebrew root is also seen in Syriac. Arabic has "gharida = he was bashful", which is rather far off in meaning. So we have a narrow basis for a solid hypothesis, though Proto-Semitic may have used this root "*ח ר ד , GH R D". This three consonant root possibly developed out of a two consonant "GH R", that was a reinforced version of "G R": "*ח ר , GH R" < "*ג ר, G R ", pronounced with a vowel "Ŏ".

 

Note:
  • Indo-European.

     

    Old Indian, like Latin but unlike Greek, Slavic and Germanic, has for the concepts of "fright, anxiousness" and of "stiffness", similar words, or rather identical words with both meanings. "hártsati, hŗtsyati = to be anxious, excited; to become stiff, rigid, to bristle". One may find some practical link between hair rising up stiff and fright, but that is not sufficient to see a common origin in meaning, concept.

     

    Slavic for the meaning of this entry, regarding horror and fright, has a hypothesis of "*grozā". As a noun in Russian this means "thunderstorm", but also threat, terror". And "грозный, groznĕy" stands for "threatening, terrible, dreadful", besides further , also figurative, meanings. "Иоанн грозный, Yoann groznŭy" is "Ivan the Terrible".

     

    For Indo-European a hypothesis can be "GH O R-". The initial "GH" can soften into "H" (Latin, Old Indian), sharpen into "G" (Germanic) or disappear (Greek, perhaps via "H"). A metathesis between "R" and vowel can take place, as is common in Germanic.

 

 

 

 
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Created: Tuesday 6 November 2007 at 22.30.54 Updated: 27/10/2012 at 16.05.23