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H 0771             ב ר ק

Concept of root : intestines

Hebrew word

pronunciation

English meanings

ב ר ק

qerev

intestines

Related English words

none

Comparison between European words and Hebrew

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Hebrew

     ב ר ק

qerev

intestines, belly

q . r . v

Middle High German

krœse

kreuse

intestines

k r . s

Middle Low German

krōs

krōs

intestines;

bellyfat

k r . s

Middle Dutch

croos, crose

cros(ĕ)

intestines

c r . s

 

 

Proto-Semitic *QEREB --- *KRŌS- Proto-Germanic < *KRĀS- Indo-European

 

 

Can anything be nearer that that which is inside us ? This is the simplest explanation why the root "Q R B" for "nearness", seen in entry GR 1200 (Hebrew 0769), can be used to define "intestines", with just a different use of vowels.

 

We see a difference, in that the Hebrew word has a final B (pronounced V) and the West-Germanic ones have S. Usually we should find in Hebrew an explanation in a combination of two consonants, here "Q R", that also in other roots with an extra third consonant serves a related concept. There is, as we can see in entry E 0148 (Hebrew 0772) and perhaps E 0803 (Hebrew 0773). Also in entry GR 1192 (Hebrew 0768) with a.o. the message of "to meet, encounter" . At the complementary side, in Germanic, adding an S is a common way of building words.

 

Note:
  • Proto-Semitic has the same root ( hypothetical of course ) found in Hebrew : "*ק ר ב ". We present the same vowels as found in Hebrew, though this remains uncertain.

     

    The root is also seen in Moabite "ב ק ר ב , (B) Q R B = ( in ) the midst of". Ugaritic used the same root for the same meaning and so does Akkadian in "qirbu = interior".

 

Note:
  • Dutch used , and rarely still uses, this word more specifically to indicate the entrails of slaughtered animals.

 

Note:
  • Proto-Germanic may have used a form "*KR Ō S-" for "intestines", though the basis for this hypothesis is relatively narrow. Understandibly the aspect of intestines might induce us to see the words of his group related to the concept of "curved, crooked" , but the origin lies rather in their nature.

 

Note:
  • Indo-European. We refer to Entry E 0151 (Hebrew 0509), with a predecessor for Dutch "croos" as "*KR Ā S-" . This probably comes from an older root without third consonant, "*KR Ā-" , that has as well led to further differentiations : "*KR Ā N-" "for "flesh" and "*KR Ā D-" for "heart".

 

 

 

 

 
Created: Tuesday 6 November 2007 at 22.30.54 Updated: 22/11/2012 at 17.52.01