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E 0179 CLUB
This English word " club " is of unknown origin .
H 0521 ל ל
כ , ל י כ ה ;ל ו כ
Concept of root :
keep and stick together
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Hebrew word
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pronunciation
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English meanings
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ל ; ו כ
ל ; י כ ה
ל ל כ
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kol;
hekhil;
kolel
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to
contain;
to receive
and keep;
to
welcome and sustain
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Related English words
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club
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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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ל ו כ
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ל י כ ה;
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ל ל כ;
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ל ל כ;
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kol;
hekhil;
kolel;
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kelal
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to contain;
to receive and keep;
to welcome and sustain;
community
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k . l
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English
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club
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club
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k l . b
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Middle
Dutch
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colve
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colve
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club
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k . l v
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Hebrew KOLEL , KELAL < Proto-Semitic * KOL --- COLVE Middle Dutch, CLUB English,
The combination "K L" in Hebrew, usually with a vowel O in between and here written with a letter "waw" as a vowel O, is used to express a number of concepts, among which : totality, entireness, all, everybody, anyone, but also measuring. If not with an O-sound but with A, E or I-sounds, it expresses quite different things, such as closing, prison, stop being, weakening, but also completeness. If combined with a third consonant in a root, a wide range of messages is expressed.
With such a large number of different roots, we must be very careful not to jump to conclusions. In this entry we have picked three specific messages, based on "KOL" with its derived complex verbs "HEKHIL" and "KOLEL". These three meanings, seen in figurative sense, represent rather precisely the essence of the forming of social groups, in English called "club". Hebrew has an important word in "כ ל ל , kelal = community". The same word expresses the concept of "rule". This is also found in Aramaic "כ ל ל א , kelal'ā = general rule". A club is a community with solid rules.
We remark that no etymology at all has been found for "club". It has been tried to say that it has been based on a "club" (bat, stick) that in old time was sent around to convocate the members of a group. We doubt that. A complication lies in the fact that the use of this word "club" in English seems to be documented only since the 1600's. But in Middle Dutch the word was in use centuries earlier and it may be just very old.
Note:
- Germanic and Hebrew. We see a metathesis of L and waw, in this case the vowel U ( in Middle Dutch the vowel O ). In Hebrew and Middle Dutch the vowel comes first, in the English word the consonant L. The second difference is that the European words have a final consonant added, which is B in English, but V in Dutch. Generally English and Dutch may tend in their development to practice such an addition to make pronunciation more effective and pleasant.
Note:
- Middle Dutch "colve" has both meanings of " club", also that of a special kind of stick as seen in English "club". In the modern noun " geweerkolf = rifle-butt " it is still used to indicate the butt of a rifle.
We have found no way to link together the two identical words , nor English club (stick) with English club (association) nor Middle Dutch "colve (stick)" with Middle Dutch "colve (closed association)". The odd thing is that the English word in old language is only found as a "stick", but in Dutch we look many centuries back .
Important is that a cognate or rather sister word is found in Old Norse "klubba" and a presumably older "klumba", with only the meaning of "budgeon, cudgel". This is an indication of difference in origin perhaps also for the English and Middle Dutch words.
In Post Biblical Hebrew we find a word that looks like " colve ", but this word "kolav" means " hook", like Arabic "kulab" and Aramaic "kulebā" stand for "axe, hatchet".
Note:
- Proto-Semitic. This root with its basic meanings of "to contain, comprehend, measure" is seen in Aramaic and Syriac "א כ י ל , akhil = he measured". Ugaritic uses this root for "to contain, measure". Arabic "kāla = he measured" and Akkadian "kullu = to contain". This indicates that with this meaning this root probably was used already in Proto-Semitic. "* כ ו ל , K W L". We have insufficient information to conclude the use in Proto-Semitic of this root to express , be it in complex verbs, the concept of "to welcome and sustain", that is an important part of the "club-concept" as in Hebrew "כ ל ל , kolel".
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