E 0127          (TO) BUD

The vereb " to bud " is of Germanic origin .

H 0632            ט ב נ

Concept of root : to bud

Hebrew word

pronunciation

English meanings

ט ב נ

nawath;

neweth

to bud;

bud

Related English words

bud

Comparison between European words and Hebrew

Languages

Words

Pronunciation

English meanings

Similarity in roots

Hebrew

ט ב נ <

ט ב ; *

ט ב נ

nawath; <

both;

neweth

to bud;

to bud;

bud

n . b . th<

b . th

English

to bud

to bud

b . d

Dutch

botten

botten

to bud

b . t

Italian

buttare

buttare

to bud

b . t

 

 

Proto-Semitic *NABATH < *BŎTH --- *BOT-TEN Dutch < *BŎT Indo-European

 

 

This is one of various cases in which we see a Hebrew word beginning with a consonant N, but of which the other two, here B TH, correspond with a Germanic root without that N. Such N’s can be considered as a prefix of confirmation or even stimulation. The fact that the letter B (bet) in Hebrew between vowels is pronounced as W does not change the origin and similarity.

 

Note:
  • Italian has many words of Germanic origin, and this is one of them. Regretfully it is seen as the same word as another identical "buttare" that means "to throw" and is probably related to Latin "battuere", later changed into "battere" = "to beat". This has given some confusion. See also the next note.

 

Note:
  • Germanic, at least in Middle Dutch, distinguishes neatly between two verbs : "botten" for " to bud" and "boten" for "to beat". But even more so in English, where nobody would think of throwing "to beat" and "to bud" on one heap.

 

Note:
  • Hebrew seems not to offer us many words or roots that as such reinforce our supposition of similarity as explained before. But there is an intensive verb with doubled root " ב ט ב ט , bithbèth " that means "to swell", exactly a main characteristic of "to bud" . This helps a bit.

 

Note:
  • Proto-Semitic. This root is found in Aramaic נ ב ט , newath = it burst forth, sprouted, grew" and has a cognate "nabata " with the same meaning in Arabic. It may well have been present in Proto-Semitic "* נ ב ט, N B TH" or "* נ ב ת , N B T". This presumably developed out of an earlier "* ב ת , B T", possibly with the pronunciation "B O T".

 

Note:
  • Proto-Germanic, Indo-European. Besides English and Dutch we have no evidence for the Proto-Germanic form with a specific botanic message, that probably existed. English "bud" has a predecessor in Middle English "budde, bodde"and this makes it possible that in older Germanic there was either "*BŎ D-" or more probably "*BŎ T-" . This is then seen as derived from a of course hypothetical Indo-European "*BHEU_" with the meaning of "to swell". But with the specific meaning Indo-European may well have added the final dental " T ".

     

    Cognates are found in French "bouton" and Italian "bottone", that have a botanic meaning besides other ones. These words presumably are of Germanic origin. But also Celtic uses "B Ŏ T(H)" and the three may be all similar : "*B Ŏ T-".

 

 

 

 

 
Created: Tuesday 6 November 2007 at 22.30.54 Updated: Thursday 7 February 2013 at 16.00.15