Moses (Mosheh) leads me out of the desert, and drives me to the Galilee in an hour. My new apt. is a mile from the duplex cave where Shem (son of Noah, and his son Ever -- another meanibg of IVRit or Hebrew) taught the new kid, Abram the Chaldean, the language of Eden that all younger people had lost in the neurolinguistic upheaval at the Tower of Babel (Shinar or Sumer). I'm moving to a neighborhood of Sfad called K'nan, as in the land of Canaan. I shall be a Canaanite?! I hope not, but in honor of extinct Semitic neighbors I began a short Hittite list. My Israeli cable guy is due in tomorrow, so I hope to not miss a beat. P.S. Hittite (extinct IE) [from a brief foray into letter S words from the dict. of Alwin Klockhorst . Cognates are often provided in Anatolian and others.] Booty, plunder sar < S-L שלל SHaLaL, booty (not the kind you shake, shake, shake) plunder. Emminent person sarko < שר SahR is a chief, leader, captain, minister or ruler [SIRE, sir] Grain, a certain kind of < שבולת SHeBOALeT, [SPELT] Help, support sardi < עוזר [O]aWZeR, help [AUXILLIARY] Hide (skin) suksuk(k < ß חוץ K[H]OOTS, outside, a reduplicated reverse of Het-Tsadi [HIDE] One (number 1) si < ß אחת AK[H]aS, one. [EACH] Sleep suppar < S-L שפל SHaPHeL (low, brought low) [SLEEP, soporific]. Sip sarap < as in Arabic sharab, drink [SYRRUP] Stormclouds sarayar, saraun < סער $a’[A]R, storm [SQUALL] Urine sebur, sebun < S-B, S-F זבה ZahBHaH, leak out [SEEP] -------------- This missive barely fired in time from Sderot. 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" |