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E 0416 HALL, AULIC
The word "hall" is of Germanic origin
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"Aulic" comes, via Latin,
from Greek .
H 0081 ם ל ו א
Concept of root : hall
Hebrew word
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pronunciation
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English meanings
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ם ל ו א
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ulam
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hall
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Related English words
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hall
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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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ם ל ו א
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ulam
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hall
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. u
l . m
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Greek
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αυλη
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aulè
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hall
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. u l .
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Doric Greek
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αυλα
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aula
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hall
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. u l .
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Gothic
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alh-s
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alh-s
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temple
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. ah l .
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Old Saxon
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alah
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alah
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temple
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. a l . h
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English
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hall ;
aulic
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hall ;
aulic
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h .
l ;
. u l .
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Hebrew *ULAM --- *AL-, *H A L Indo-European
The word "aula" of this root , from Greek has conquered much of the world. Hebrew "ulam" and "elam" indicating spaces within a building that are not directly for living or eating, is an obvious sisterword of the Greek one, even if it has a final M added.
There are more instances in which an initial H is found in Germanic that corresponds with a vowel, sometimes reinforced by an Ayin in Hebrew, or extended in Greek or Latin.
Note:
- Hebrew als has the word "
א
י
ל
ם , elam = hall, vestibule". This has developed out of "ulam".
Note:
- Proto-Semitic There is insufficient evidence from other Semitic languages to allow a hypothesis for a root. The Akkadian word "ellamu = in front of" may be related.
Note:
- Greek uses this word in different versions to express spaces one stays in. It goes from " inner
court " to "cottage" and can even become a "palace". A "stable" or "bivouac" also can come
within its reach . The basic meaning is here as well that of a not fully covered or elsewise not
fully closed space .
Certainly the word is not related to the verb "kalüptein = to hide" as sometimes is thought. Hiding is about the contrary of the use of these well visible covered spaces.
Note:
- English "hall ", Old English "heall " comes from a Germanic root that in origin was used to differentiate a not or not fully covered or partially closed roomy space from fully covered and closed ones that had an initial S instead of an initial H. In the view of some scholars the Old English word for this was "sele" . The sister word of this "sele" in German and Dutch today is a "Saal" or "zaal". It is quite probable that in Germanic "halle" and "Saal" are of independent origin. Old English also has a certainly related word for a "sheltering " or "temple": "alh" or "ealh", related to Old Saxon "alah" and Gothic " alh-s", that both mean "temple".
Note:
- Proto-Germanic There is no reason to suppose stronger guttural aspiration than the mentioned words have with their "H" and Proto-Germanic should have had "*H A L(L)" and also "*A L H" with related meanings.
Note:
- Indo-European.
Old Indian has "śālā = house, building" and this may well be related to the Proto-Germanic words of the previous notes and to Greek " α υ λ η , aulè " , with its mentioned range of meanings. The Greek word is considered to have been based on an older root "A W L". It must also be noted that Old Indian śālā is related to Germanic words like German "Saal= hall, large room". And with that to Middle Dutch "sale, sael, sele = building, palace, court, hall".
It has been tried to relate these words to Russian "у л и ц а, ulitsa = street", but the semantic link seems very weak. For Indo-European the possible form seems to be "* A L", but as well "*H A L-". The referred "S" in Old Indian and Germanic as well as the initial "H" in "hall" may be prefixes and it is uncertain if they may have been introduced earlier.
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Created: Tuesday 6 November 2007 at 22.30.54 Updated: 27/09/2012 at 9.54.21 |
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