E 0470          HURST

The Old Saxon word " hurst " is of Germanic origin .

H 0452            ש ר ח

Concept of root : bush

Hebrew word

pronunciation

English meanings

ש ר ח

ghoresh

bush

Related English words

Old Saxon : hurst

Comparison between European words and Hebrew

Languages

Words

Pronunciation

English meanings

Similarity in roots

Hebrew

ש ר ח

ghoresh

bush

gh . r sh

Old Saxon

hurst

      

bush

h . r s

Old High-German

hurst

hurst

bush

h . r s

Middle Dutch

horst

horst, hurst

bush

h . r s

 

 

Proto-Semitic *GHORESH <*HORESH --- *HURS(-T) Proto-Germanic

 

 

Such a little word, out of fashion in German and Dutch, and it is as good as identical to Hebrew. The final T is a common Germanic suffix, that normally does not influence the meaning of the word.
It is interesting to see that the words " hurst" and "horst" are common names .

 

Note:
  • Hebrew. The Ghet in this case is probably a reinforced H, just as occurs in Southern Dutch dialects.

 

Note:
  • Proto-Semitic. The usually hypothesized Proto-Semitic root " *H . R . SH" would confirm our supposition that the Hebrew initial consonant " "GH" has been developed out of an earlier "H". This "H" is also found in Akkadian "hurshu = wooded height". It is possible that the third consonant in these Semitic words, "SH", has been introduced as a diversification from a "height, hill" in general that has a root "H .R" into a "wooded height" with the root "H . R . SH". See also entry GR 1222 (Hebrew 0403). Aramaic has with the same root "ח ו ר ש א, ghorshà = wood". Arabic "ghursh" also says "wood". Proto-Semitic probably had a root "*ח ר ש , GH R SH", besides an older "*ה ר ש , H R SH" or "H R S". We presume that in Proto-Semitic vowels as seen in Hebrew were in use. though also the " U " may have been present.

 

Note:
  • Proto-Germanic. The same word "horst" or an identical one is used in German and Dutch to indicate the nest of eagles or other birds of prey , nests that are made by a kind of twining of twigs and small branches. This has led to the supposition that the origin of the word "hurst" is in a meaning of "to plait". An idea that is reinforced for these scholars by the fact that the word "hurst" is also used for a "thicket". But a thicket is just a kind of wood or bush and often branches of the dense growth are intertwined, but that remains all. And indeed twining is at all not plaiting. As to the eagle's nest, one may consider that such birds prefer to have their nest on high rocks or wooded heights, that are "hursts". By the way, a "horst" is also a formation of the earth's crust, in contrast with rifts.

     

    Proto-Germanic probably had a form "*H U RS (T)-"

 

Note:
  • Indo-European. We are without information regarding possible cognates in other Indo-European languages.

 

 

 

 

 
Created: Tuesday 6 November 2007 at 22.30.54 Updated: 27/12/2012 at 15.04.32