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E 0440 HEGEMONY
The word " hegemony " is of Greek origin .
H 0641 ג
ה
נ
Concept of root : leading,
conducting
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Hebrew word
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pronunciation
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English meanings
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ג ה נ
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nahag
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to
lead, conduct
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Related English words
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hegemony, from Greek
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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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ג ה נ
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nahag
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to lead, conduct
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n . h . g
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Greek
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ήγεομαι,
αγω
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hègeomai;
ago
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to lead, conduct
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h . g
‘(a) g
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Latin
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agere
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agere
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to lead, conduct
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‘(a) g
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English
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hegemony
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hegemony
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h . g
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Proto-Semitic *NAHAG < *HAG --- *HĂG- Indo-European
The Hebrew letter N often is added as a prefix to an existing root of two consonants, without any fundamental change in the meaning of that root. An older root "H G" may have carried the message we find in the related Greek and Latin words of this entry.
Note:
- English "hegemony " comes directly from the Greek word "ήγεμονια , hègemonia " that says " authority, rule ".
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- Greek scholars say that "hègeomai" is based on the short verb "ago" . Both verbs share the same basic messages, but "hègeomai" adds that of "authority and command". It is not fully certain that this hypothesis is right . It supposes that the identical Greek and Latin verbs " ago" have lost an original initial H . Such a disappearance is as such a frequent phenomenon, but specific indications in the case of " ago " lie in the Greek verb " hègeomai " and in the kinship with Hebrew " nahag " .
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- Greek and Hebrew. Particularly interesting would be that "hègéomai" either introduces or, in our view even more probably, reintroduces the initial H that we see in our Hebrew root.
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- Hebrew in modern language has a "nahag" as the driver of a bus.
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- Proto-Semitic. This root is found in Aramaic " נ ה ג, nehag = he led" and Ethiopian "anhaga = he drove cattle". It has a cognate in Arabic " nahaja = he went along the road, way", in which as usual the "G" has become "J".
This root may well have been present in Proto-Semitic: "* נ ה ג , N H G".
The initial " N " in our view is a confirming prefix of the message of "to lead, conduct, rule" that is already carried by the two consonant combination "H + G".
Note:
- Indo-European. Greek "hègeomai" according to Greek scholars has developed out of a basis "H Ă G-". This could or in fact should mean that the very well known verb "ago", together with its Latin sister "ago", and as is in fact the case with very many words, has lost an original initial " H ", that in "hègeomai" continued. This indicates an Indo-European "*H Ă- G".
We point out that such a " H " is not found in the eastern Indo-European languages. We see Old Indian "ajati", Avestan "aza'ti", Armenian "acem", but also in he Western part of today Irish "aigim" . Cymric shows "agit".
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| Created: Tuesday 6 November 2007 at 22.30.54 Updated: 13/11/2012 at 9.14.22 |
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