GD 1097          SCHONEN

H 0885            ן א ש

H 0885            ן נ א ש

Concept of root : serenity

Hebrew word

pronunciation

English meanings

ן א ש

ן נ א ש

sha’an;

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sha’anan

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to be at ease, rest, rest secure;

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at ease, secure, tranquil, worryless

Related English words

none

Comparison between European words and Hebrew

Languages

Words

Pronunciation

English meanings

Similarity in roots

Hebrew

ן ; א ש

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ן נ א ש

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sha’an;

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sha’anan

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to be at ease, at rest, rest secure;

at ease, tranquil, worryless

sh . (’) . n

Middle Dutch

schonen

sghonen

to make stay in peace, serenity

sgh . n

Dutch

verschonen

versghonen

to spare, leave in peace

sgh . n

German

schonen

shonen

to spare, respect, leave in peace

sh . n

 

 

Proto-Semitic *SHA'AN --- *SKŌN- Proto-Germanic

 

 

German and Dutch among the Germanic languages have conserved from certainly milennia ago this root that it shares with Hebrew. But in Old Norse there was also still the verb "skona" with the same message.

 

Note:
  • Dutch. This word and root have no connection with the German word "schön" that means "beautiful". Dutch has a sisterword "schoon" with the same meaning, besides that of "clean", but also this is not related to the verb "schonen", that in modern Dutch has left the ground to a composite word "verschonen". Already in Middle Dutch this "verschonen" was related to the various basic meanings, of these two independent roots.

     

    Many comments show that people are not aware of the fact that the verb "schonen" is independent from "schoon = beautiful"

 

Note:
  • Proto-Semitic is seen as having had already this same root seen in Hebrew "*ש א ן , SH Aleph N". It is found in Syriac "ש א ן , sha'èn = he pacified". Ethiopian has the noun "sen'e = peace". It may be added that an identical root expresses "to make noise, tumult, uproar", an opposite of peace and rest.

 

Note:
  • Proto-Germanic . Independent from the question if we have one single root or two identical roots with the different meanings of "beautiful, clean" and "to spare, leave in peace", Proto-Germanic probably had the form "*SK Ō N-" for the meaning of this entry. The way from Indo-European to Germanic has not been established.

 

 

 

 
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Created: Tuesday 6 November 2007 at 22.30.54 Updated: 29/11/2012 at 14.44.26