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LA 1252 LANIARE SE
H 0559 ן
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ל
Concept of root : lamenting
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Hebrew word
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pronunciation
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English meanings
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ן ו ל
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lon
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to
complain, lament
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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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ן ו ל
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lon
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to complain, lament
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l (o) n
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Latin
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laniare se
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laniare sé
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to lament, complain
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l . ny
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Italian
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lagnarsi;
lagna
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lanyarsi;
lanya
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to lament, complain;
lament, complaint
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l . ny
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Hebrew *LON --- LAN-I-ARE SE Latin
The complaining meant by this word was properly done by the people in the desert in front of Moses when they found undrinkable bitter waters or did not have anything to eat. It must be noted that roots with a central Waw in Hebrew open the way for different pronunciations to be chosen in practical speaking, in this case "lon" or "lawan", that uses vowels "A" like also Latin has.
Note:
- Latin "laniare se" is decidedly considered as having been derived from a root that carries the message of "tearing to pieces, lacerate". In fact that is the meaning of the verb "laniare", and a "lanius" is a butcher. Thus "laniare se" would have meant "to lacerate oneself", because people in mourning lacerate their clothes. Well, the clothes are not yet the body and only in some special circumstances clothes are torn, whereas people complain all the time. Therefore it is more probable that we have a coincidence of similar-sounding roots with different meanings. The etymologic reasoning we cited above seems a bit too narrow.
To this we must add that it is hard to find "laniare se" in Classic Latin. Still, and this makes things more difficult, we have not found indications of the way our root has followed from the far past into some modern Latin languages.
Note:
- Proto-Semitic. Regretfully we have no information from other Semitic languages that would allow us to make a hypothesis. The sometimes proposed Arabic word "lāma = he blamed". is too far off to procure a basis.
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| Created: Tuesday 6 November 2007 at 22.30.54 Updated: 27/12/2012 at 16.48.26 |
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