E 0921           TIGHT

The word " tight " is of Germanic origin .

H 0391            ק ד ה

Concept of root : tighten

Hebrew word

pronunciation

English meanings

ק ד ה

hadaq, hiddèq

to tighten

Related English words

tight

Comparison between European words and Hebrew

Languages

Words

Pronunciation

English meanings

Similarity in roots

Hebrew

ק ד ה

hadaq, hiddèq

to tighten

h d q

Middle English

tight ,

thyght

tight

th . ght

English

tight

tight

t . ght

German

dicht

dikht

tight

d . kh

Dutch

dicht

dight

tight

d . gh

 

 

Proto-Semitic *HADAQ < *DAQ, "DOQ --- *DIKHT- Proto-Germanic

 

 

This entry is related to number E 0920 (Hebrew 0315) . In the Hebrew root of this entry, as we suppose, an H has been placed in front of an existing root "*D Q" This supposition finds a confirmation in the existence of another root " ד ק ק, D Q Q = to crush" with a not too distant message and certainly based on the same original root of two consonants . " *D Q". Our supposition is also confirmed by the fact that in Aramaic we find this same root, which may have been taken from Hebrew, but also a sister root "Aleph D Q", that is again found in Hebrew too.

 

Note:
  • Proto-Semitic. This Hebrew root is found in Aramaic "ה ד ק, hadaq = to press together, squeeze" as well, as mentioned. The three consonant root " *H . D . Q " may have been present in Proto-Semitic. "*ה ד ק, H D Q ", besides anyhow the earlier two consonant root "*ד ק, D Q " . As a vowel both " A " and " O " may have been in use.

 

Note:
  • English. The Middle English word " thyght " can be seen as a natural development of an earlier word beginning with a D , though there is no written testimony of this.

 

Note:
  • Proto-Germanic. The basic difference between West Germanic and North Germanic lies in the fact that the words of the first end in "GHT" or "CHT" or earlier "HT" and those of the second in "T" or "TT". The common explanation is that North Germanic, in harmony with a tendency it has, has lost that guttural in front of the final "T". Interesting is that that final "T" in all probability has been a Germanic addition to an older root without "T" as seen in Hebrew. The presumable Proto-Germanic form was "*D vowel KH T".

     

    As to the used vowel, West Germanic uses a short "I" or longer "I" , but again North Germanic differs, with an "È"-sound, that is sometimes spelled "Æ" or "Ä". The abolition of the guttural before the "T" may explain this necessity. Unexplained remains why modern English after Old English "diht, ðiht" and Middle English " thiht, ðiht" uses an initial "T" instead if a "TH" or "D". Therefore Proto-Germanic presumably had "*D I KHT-".

     

    For completeness we remark that we fail to see the often supposed link to the words of entry E 0364 (Hebrew 0310), that deals with the concepts of "to proliferate" and "to grow". A semantic relation fails.

 

 

 

 

 
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Created: Tuesday 6 November 2007 at 22.30.54 Updated: 22/10/2012 at 15.18.17