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E 0753 (TO) SAG
; (TO) SINK
The verbs " to sink " and "
to sag " are of Germanic origin .
H 0933 ע ק ש
Concept of root : sinking
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Hebrew word
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pronunciation
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English meanings
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ע ק ש
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shaq‛ā
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to sink
down
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Related English words
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to
sink, sag
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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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ע ק ש
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shaq‛ā
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to sink down
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sh . q (‛)
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English
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to sink
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to sink
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s . n k
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Russian
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закат
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zakat
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decline, setting
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z . k .
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Proto-Semitic *SHAQ‛À --- *SAK-, *SAKH- Proto-Germanic
This root in Hebrew is related to that of entry number E 0752 (Hebrew 0894) , "shagh" , that also deals with the concept of "going down". We refer to that entry for a comparison with a number of languages. Here we mention that English "to sink" has undergone a nasalization , that is an N has been inserted before the K-sound.
The sinking of "shaq‛ā" is also used for the the going down of the sun. A sunset in Hebrew is a "
ש
ק
י
ע
ה , shәqi‛ā ". We add Russian as the word "zakat" is especially used in the expression of "закат
солнца , solntsa zakat = sunset".
Note:
- Proto-Semitic . This root is seen in Aramaic "ש ק ע , sheq'ā" and the basis for a hypothesis is rather narrow. Proto-Semitic may have used the root one sees in Hebrew: "*ש ק ע , SH Q Ayin".
Note:
- Proto-Germanic . Proto-Germanic. In the non nasalized version the Nordic languages have "SIG-" as well as "S A K-", English "S A G-" and Dutch "Z A K-". Old Norse "sökkva" is both transitive and intransitive But the mentioned form "SIG-" meaning "to sink" in active and passive sense, is rather near to the nasalized "sink", found with the same meaning in many older and newer languages. It must be noted that other vowels then "I" are frequently used in other verbal forms and in causative versions of the verb. German "senken = to make sink". In Danish and Swedish there is also the "short "E-sound", but there it is spelled "sänke" resp. "sänka". And English has the forms "sank, sunk", Dutch "zonk, gezonken" and German "sank, gesunken" near English. Old English has "sincan" and "sencan" , near to German. And it has the verbal forms "sanc" and "suncen" much like modern English. But then Swedish has the infinitive "sjunka" and Danish "sünke".
Proto-Germanic probably had "*S Ĭ NK-" , but also used other vowels (U, O, E, A) within the same frame. The non nasalized form probably was "*S Ă K/KH", though the Old Norse verb "sokkva" may induce to supposing also a still present older form "*S Ŏ K-" , a situation again in an impressive way comparable to what is seen in Hebrew, that has "SHĂGH" and "SHŎGH".
Note:
- Indo-European. Lithuanian has an interesting "senku = I sink", supposing that this is not a loanword from German, as we lack other information about possible cognates in other groups of Indo-European languages.
English "to descend" comes from Latin "descendo, descendere" = "to descend, go down", that is a composed verb of "scando, scandere" = "to rise, climb. go up". This Latin word has a cognate in Sanscrit "skandâmi". Both can hardly be seen as related to the Germanic and Hebrew words of this entry. The comparison stays between Semitic and Germanic.
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| Created: Tuesday 6 November 2007 at 22.30.54 Updated: 04/12/2012 at 16.54.43 |
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