|
E 0698 (TO) PRATE
The verb " to prate " is of Germanic origin .
H 0739 ט פ
ט
פ , ט ט פ
Concept of root : to
chatter
|
Hebrew word
|
pronunciation
|
English meanings
|
|
ט פ ט פ
;ט ט פ
|
pathath;
pithĕpèth
|
to
chatter
|
|
|
|
Related English words
|
to prate
|
|
|
Comparison between European words and
Hebrew
|
Languages
|
Words
|
Pronunciation
|
English meanings
|
Similarity in roots
|
|
Hebrew
|
ט ט פ
;
ט פ ט פ
|
pathath;
pithĕpèth
|
to chatter
|
p . th
|
|
Old Norse
|
pati
|
pati
|
loose talk, prate
|
p . t
|
|
Norwegian
|
prat
|
prat
|
chatter, talk
|
p r . t
|
|
Swedish
|
prata
|
prata
|
to chatter, talk
|
p r . t
|
|
English
|
to prate
|
|
to prate
|
p r . t
|
|
German
|
pfattern < *pattern
|
pfattern<
*pattern
|
to mutter
|
pf . t <
p . t
|
Proto-Semitic *PATHÀ --- *PĀT- Indo-European
The picture of Germanic shows that the R in all probability is an emphasizing infix into the old root "P T", that existed in Old Norse and is much like Hebrew "P TH":
In fact the two Hebrew verbs are the result of two different ways of forming verbs on the basis of an existing two-consonant root, without change in meaning. One consists in the doubling of the second consonant : from "P TH" into "P TH TH". The other one doubles the root : "P TH" into "P TH P TH".
Note:
- English "to prate" , from Middle English "praten", is of course akin to the identical word in Swedish as well as in Low German and Dutch : "praten".
Note:
- Proto-Semitic. We have no specific evidence for a hypothesis regarding this root . There is an Arabic "bathbatha = it quacked", said of ducks. This kind of words may be imitative, but also imitations of sounds follow different patterns and thus similarities may be of importance. The existence of the two different lengthened roots shaped on the basis of old "*P . TH" makes it probable that Proto-Semitic indeed had "*פ ט ה , P TH H (accentuated vowel), pathà ".
Note:
- Proto-Germanic The verb "praten" in Dutch carries the meaning of "to speak", different from English "to prate" . In Middle Dutch "praten" said both " to prate, prattle" and "to speak".
The two German verbs are shaped as iteratives and the original root had no " R ".
It is seen as possible that Proto-Germanic used the root without " R " that is seen in Old Norwegian and that is at the origin of the German ones : "*P Ā T-".
|
|
|
| Created: Tuesday 6 November 2007 at 22.30.54 Updated: 21/11/2012 at 14.10.42 |
|