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E 0218 CRYO- , CRYOGEN
The wordpart " cryo- " and the word
" cryogene " are of Greek origin .
H 0766 ה ר ק , ר ק
Concept of root : cold
Hebrew word
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pronunciation
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English meanings
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; ר ק
ה ר ק
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qar;
qor;
qarà
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cold (adj.);
cold (noun);
cold (noun)
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Related English words
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cryogene
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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 ק;
ר ק;
ה ר ק
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qar;
qor;
qarà
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cold (adj);
cold (noun)
cold (noun)
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q . r;
q (w) r;
q . r .
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Greek
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κρυος
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krüos
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cold
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k r (u)
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English
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cryo- ;
cryogen
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cryo- ;
cryogen
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c r (y)
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Proto-Semitic *QAR, *QOR --- *KRÜ-OS Greek
The concept of coldness in both Greek and Hebrew is expressed by the K-sound plus an R-sound. In Greek we see a " Ü ", that may have been added for pronunciation. Scholars have a problem with the etymology of "kruos".
Note:
- Greek. The choice for speakers was, roughly, between inserting a vowel between the K and the R, as in Hebrew, or else pronouncing a vowel after the unit "KR". About all combinations have their own message in Greek and so has the combination "K R U" that has received its normal suffix in "-os". The choices that lay behind this are among the biggest riddles of etymology.
Note:
- Hebrew on the basis of this root of two consonants has built another one, with the extra consonant GH : "
ק
ר
ח , keragh" that means something more cold than normal cold : ice, frost. This is a characteristic example of the way Hebrew built its roots and words.
Hebrew has two more roots that have developed out of the one of this entry. " ק
ר
ר , Q R R " says : "to be cold" and "ק
ר
ש , Q R SH" , found in Post Biblical Hebrew, stands for " to freeze, congeal".
Note:
- Proto-Semitic. Compared with Hebrew "qor" and "qar" we see in Aramaic "qur", in Syriac "qar" and in Arabic both "qurr-" and "qirr-" as well as "qarra. This indicates that the root in Proto-Semitic may well have been "*ק ו ר , Q W R" , not yet "*ק י ר, Q Y R" that is basically a later development, perhaps only in Arabic.
The extended root "Q R R" is present in Aramaic "qarar" and Ethiopian "qarara", all meaning "was cold". Possibly Proto-Semitic had already as well the lengthened root. : "*ק ר ר , Q R R", besides the older "*ק ר , Q R". In our comparison we mention both " A " and " O " as vowels.
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Created: Tuesday 6 November 2007 at 22.30.54 Updated: 22/11/2012 at 16.27.48 |
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