| DIL(UTE) DooLahL Dalet-Lamed-Lamed DUEL-(LULL)_________דלל__________[D-L] ROOTS: To DILUTE is to thin down, weaken or reduce (a liquid). It is currently linked to Latin diluere (to wash away), where it is considered a cognate of "ablution," "lave" and "lye." See "ALBINO" and לבן La[V]aN (to whiten, wash) for the Hebrew etymology of these words. הדיל HeeD’LeeYL is to dilute; דליל DaLeeYL means sparse or thin. דל DahL (Genesis 41:19) means weak, thin or poor; Egypt's canals דללDalet-Lamed-Lamed -- DLL) "(di)minish" or "ebb" in Isaiah 19:6. Samson’s Philistine girlfriend, דלילה DILILAH (Judges 16), means “weakener.” Hebrew names go untranslated; other Hebrew words are mistranslated. Anyone calling themselves a Bible Reader who reads a DILUTED, non-Hebrew Bible, is deluded. BRANCHES: דלחה DiLee[K]HaH is the Modern Hebrew word for pollution. DOLDRUMS, DOLT and DULL are DL terms that belong here, rather than with the IndoE “root” dheu- ("to rise in a cloud"). To DILATE (enlarge) is an antonym of increasing, linked to Hebrew terms like תלל TeeLaiL (to pile or heap up) - see "TALL." Like דל DahL, Avestic driyu means “poor” (liquid shift from Lamed to R) – see “DERVISH.” Fearhas MacFhiomlaigh , invoking the established Tsadi-Dalet (TS-D) relationship, suggests a link between צלTSeL (shadow, shade) and דלל DaLaL (weak). A shadow is a visually weakened image of an original. He presents a prooftext for דלל DaLaL specifically referring to weak vision: דַּלּוּ עֵינַי לַמָּרֹום ("my eyes fail with looking up" Isaiah 38:14). In Scots Gaelic dal means “blind.” (Dililah’s victim went eyeless in Gaza.) FM also provides the following: dall = blind in Irish; in Early Irish it is dal; Welsh and Breton have dall; the Cornish “blind” is dal. *Dvalno- and dhvḷ-no- are Indo-European reconstructions covering English DULL and the D-L Greek word θολερός meaning turbid. He ends with a blind animal name in Irish: dallag or dallóg , a mole. Daily posts on Facebook/Twitter--Edenics web games: www.edenics.net Edenics videolectures and most recent book: THE ORIGIN OF SPEECHES. Edenic (Biblical Hebrew) as the original, pre-Babel human language program see our many resources at www.edenics.org incl. videos in English, Spn, Fr. or Ger. upgraded youtube.com "intro to edenics" |