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

pronunciation

English meanings

; ר ק

ה ר ק

qar;

qor;

qarà

cold (adj.);

cold (noun);

cold (noun)

Related English words

cryogene

Comparison between European words and Hebrew

Languages

Words

Pronunciation

English meanings

Similarity in roots

Hebrew

      ר ק;

      ר ק;

ה ר ק

qar;

qor;

qarà

cold (adj);

cold (noun)

cold (noun)

q . r;

q (w) r;

q . r .

Greek

κρυος

krüos

cold

k r (u)

English

cryo- ;

cryogen

cryo- ;

cryogen

c r (y)

 

 

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.

 

 

 

 

 
Created: Tuesday 6 November 2007 at 22.30.54 Updated: 22/11/2012 at 16.27.48