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E 0884 SUIT
The word " suit " is of
Germanic origin .
H 0955 ת י ש
Concept of root : dress
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Hebrew word
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pronunciation
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English meanings
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ת י ש
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shìt
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dress,
clothes
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Related English words
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none
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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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ת י ש
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shìt
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dress, clothes
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sh . y . t
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English
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suit
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suit
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s (u) . t
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Middle Dutch
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sutter
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sŭtter
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dressmaker
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s (u) t
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Proto-Semitic *SHYT < SHUT --- *SŪT- Proto-Germanic
In entry E 0883 (Hebrew 0873) we see another rather similar Hebrew word, that has the same meaning as this one. For comments about the similarity with English and Dutch we refer to that entry.
Note:
- Hebrew and Proto-Semitic. Hebrew consequently uses the following two words for exactly the same meaning. The first
one was "
ס
ו
ת , sut" and the actual one is "
ש
י
ת , shìt". But there is as well a version "
ש
ו
ת , shut", that is a predecessor of "shit".
It is rather certain that these two/three
Hebrew words have one common origin as well. The sounds " S " and " U " have changed
into " SH " and " I ". Both changes are quite normal . That means that presumably the oldest one was
"sut" and the newest one "shìt" . The oldest one may well have been present in Proto-Semitic: "*ס ו ת , S W T".
Note:
- Proto-Germanic. English "suit" is, oddly just like many other words, considered to have its origin in Latin "sequor = to follow". The similarity with Dutch ( and in fact Hebrew) helps to forget that legend. The available information, though not abundant, points at a hypothesis for a possible Proto-Germanic "*S Ū T-", as proposed in our comparison above. We see no possibility to establish a link to Indo-European.
Note:
- Indo-European . As often, also this time we have a similarity between Semitic and Germanic, but no sufficient indication from other Indo-European branches for a hypothesis.
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| Created: Tuesday 6 November 2007 at 22.30.54 Updated: 07/12/2012 at 9.02.34 |
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