GD 1038          BRUISEN

H 0280            ז ר ב

Concept of root : to make flow

Hebrew word

pronunciation

English meanings

ז ר ב

berez

tap, faucet

Related English words

spray (uncertain)

Comparison between European words and Hebrew

Languages

Words

Pronunciation

English meanings

Similarity in roots

Hebrew

ז ר ב

berez

tap, faucet

b r z

Greek

βρυσις

brϋsis

spray, foam

b r .s

Modern Greek

βρυση

wrisi

tap, faucet

b r . s

Dutch

bruis;

-

bruisen

br(ui)s;

-

br(ui)sen

spray, foam;

to bubble,

spray

b r .s

German

Brause;

-

brausen

-

br(au)ze;

-

br(au)zen

-

shower, spray ;

to bubble, spray

b r.z

 

 

Proto-Semitic *BARAZ --- *BRŪS-" Indo-European

 

 

Both Hebrew "berez" and Modern Greek "wrisi" are found in modern language. For Greek the origin is rather clear, with the help of the classic word "brusis". German and Dutch add something to the European picture.

 

The obvious thought behind this is that a faucet has received its Greek and Hebrew names on account of the typical movement of the water that comes out .

 

The root that was used to shape the modern word for " tap, faucet, bung" is an old West Semitic and also Hebrew root , "B.R.Z", that had the meaning of "bung" as well as "bung hole" . This places us in a rather comfortable similarity of message , between old and new times .

 

Note:
  • Proto-Semitic . This Hebrew root is seen also in Aramaic and may have existed as such in Proto-Semitic : "*ב ר ז, B R Z" . The vowels remain uncertain.

 

Note:
  • Proto-Germanic . In Germanic languages we find German "brausen" after Middle High German "brūsen", Dutch "bruisen", Norwegian and Danish "bruse" and Swedish "brusa". The words cover the concepts of "to spray, to bubble, to foam" and also "to (visibly) ferment". Sometimes a distinction is made between two sister words, as in Old North Dutch between "bruysen = to foam, ferment" and "bruizen = to spray", but there is only one word with more spellings , as very usual in that period. Proto-Germanic probably had "*BR Ū S-"

 

Note:
  • Indo-European. Besides Greek and Germanic we see a Lithuanian "brusgù" = to spray, bubble". Indo-European may have had a form like Proto-Germanic : "*BR Ū S-".

 

Note:
  • English " to spray " may well be a distant cousin of the words of this entry .

 

 

 

 
"...the town, to which was given the name Babel, because it was there that the Lord confused the language of all the world on the face of which He dispersed them. GENESIS 11,9"
 
Created: Tuesday 6 November 2007 at 22.30.54 Updated: 23/12/2012 at 17.00.35