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E 0610 MYRRH
The word " myrrh " is of Greek
origin .
H 0596 ר
מ
Concept of root : myrrh
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Hebrew word
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pronunciation
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English meanings
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ר מ
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mor
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myrrh
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Related English words
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myrrh
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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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ר מ
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mor
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myrrh
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m . r
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Greek
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μυρρα
σμυρρα
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mürra; smürra
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myrrh
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m . r
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English
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myrrh
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myrrh
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m . r
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Proto-Semitic *MŪRR --- MÜRRA , SMÜRNA Greek
The similarity is clear. Often the Greek word " myrra " is considered a loanword from Semitic. But when and from which language could such a loan have taken place ? It was already used by the famous poetess Sappho, who lived around 700 a.e.v.. She came from the island of Lesbos and this fact has led to the word Lesbian, though Sappho was married and a mother. There were rather intense relations between Greeks and Phoenicians, relations in which the Alphabet of the first inspired the creation of the Greek one. For Greek "myrra" a word without final vowel was sufficient.
Remains the reality of the word "smyrna", used by Herodotos and Euripides, and considered anyhow as Ionic, certainly not a loanword and very Greek with its initial S . The similarity between the two, "myrra " and "smyrna" indicates a common origin with Semitic.
Note:
- Proto-Semitic. This root is found in Aramaic " מ ו ר א, morà" and Syriac " מ ו ר א, murà". Arabic "murr" and Akkadian "murru" mean "myrrh". The root probably was used in Proto-Semitic: "* מ ר , M R" or "* מ ו ר , M (W) R". In the comparison we have the vowel " Ū" as well as the double final " R " that is seen in Akkadian.
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| Created: Tuesday 6 November 2007 at 22.30.54 Updated: 08/11/2012 at 11.05.13 |
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