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E 0750 SACK
The word " sack " is of
Germanic origin .
H 0879 ק ש
Concept of root : sack-cloth
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Hebrew word
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pronunciation
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English meanings
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ק ש
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saq
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sack,
sackcloth
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Related English words
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sack
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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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ק ש
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saq
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sack; coarse fabric
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s . q
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Greek
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σακκος
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sakkos
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sack, coarse fabric,
coarse mantle
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s . k
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Latin
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saccus
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saccus
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sack
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s . c
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Gothic
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sakkus
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sakkus
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coarse mantle
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s . k
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Old English
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sæcc, sacc
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sack
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s . cc
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English
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sack
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sack
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s . ck
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Proto-Semitic *SAQ --- *SĂK- Indo-European
When people see words that are so alike, the first thought is not that of common origin, but more easily about loanwords. Also here we will see that phenomenon . And even, a more rare event, scholars are certain that all these words for sack have been loaned from Hebrew or perhaps from the Phoenicians, who spoke a language very similar to Hebrew. The interesting thing is that they never had any conflicts and did a lot of commerce and trading .
Also at the height of power of King Solomon, the relationship was simply perfect. The King reigned over all the land east of Phoenicia, that lay along the Mediterranean coast, and he could easily have extended his realm to include it, but he did not do so, for reasons of friendship. Later, many Jews went overseas together with the Phoenicians, and settled together for example in the colonies in North Africa.
The reason why this word "saq" should have become a loanword, is not clear. Everybody made coarse fabrics, and everybody made sacks of them. Words for this must have existed very early, if we consider that this technique was known to the people of the Stone Age at least 7000 years ago and probably earlier.
We do not know when Indo European and Semitic languages split apart, but we cannot exclude that making sacks from very coarsely woven fabric, too coarse even to be used for clothing, was well known at the time and needed to be spoken about. We will stick to that hypothesis.
Note:
- Proto-Semitic. This root, found in Aramaic and Syriac, but with the " S " spelled with a Samekh instead of a Sin "ס ק א, saqà sack". Ethiopian "shaqq" and Akkadian "shaqqu" have the same meaning. The root probably was in use in Proto-Semitic with "S" :"*ס ק , S Q".
Note:
- Indo-European. The word "sack" has its cognates in very many languages, among which also Albanian "sak" which is Indo-European and Magyar "zsak" that is not Indo-European. The word is so generally used because it referred to the rough very ancient type of cloth that was known all over in the time of Nostratic. Soemhow it never really changed.
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| Created: Tuesday 6 November 2007 at 22.30.54 Updated: 28/11/2012 at 18.19.09 |
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