GD 1080          RIJGEN, REEKS

H 0818             ס כ ר

Concept of root : connecting in line

Hebrew word

pronunciation

English meanings

ס כ ר

rakhas

to bind, link, connect

Related English words

none

Comparison between European words and Hebrew

Languages

Words

Pronunciation

English meanings

Similarity in roots

Hebrew

     ס כ ר

rakhas

to bind, link, connect

r . k . s

Dutch

reeks;

rijgen

réks;

r(ei)ghen

chain ;

to link, connect in a row

r . k s
r . g

 

 

Proto-Semitic *RAKAS --- REEKS Dutch < RĒKS Proto-Germanic

 

 

The Hebrew root "R K S" is also used to say "mountain chain", using two vowels E . Also in Dutch a "reeks" can be as well a chain of mountains : "rekhès" in Hebrew.

 

Note:
  • Proto-Semitic. Ugaritic uses this same root for the same meaning in "rakasa = he bound". Akkadian "rakāsu = to bind". This root may well have been used in Proto-Semitic: "*ר כ ס , R K S".

 

Note:
  • Dutch seems to be alone in having this root, that has a K-sound like Hebrew and offers similar meanings.

 

Note:
  • Proto- Germanic. We must distinguish this root from another related one, that has given English "row", together with its German (Reihe) and Dutch (rij) sisters. A row is not necessarily linked to a chain and thus neither to the original "reeks" in Dutch. In modern language both concepts are mixed up to a certain extent. We should like more information from other Germanic languages in order to support a hypothesis for Proto-Germanic "*R Ē KS" that may yet be right. We add it as a hypothesis to the comparison.

 

Note:
  • Indo-European References to possible cognates in other branches of Indo-European seem to lack. Words like Old Indian "rikhati = to cut open", Welsh "rwygo = to tear open" and Greek "ereiko = to tear apart, open" , that are used in the search for an etymology, are fiercely opposite in their messages.

 

 

 

 

 
Created: Tuesday 6 November 2007 at 22.30.54 Updated: 26/11/2012 at 16.37.23