BARD Da[V]aR Dalet-Bhet-Resh Dah-VAHR דבר [D-BH-RàBRD] ROOTS: A BARD became a word for any poet or singer, but the epithet for William Shakespeare is more appropriate since the historic BARD was a person of significant eloquence. In the word’s ancient Proto-Celtic and Druid past, in forms like Celtic bardo, Welsh bard and Scottish and Irish Gaelic bard, the BARD had religious significance. The Indo-European “root” of BARD may look and sound strange, and have the usual unlikely “cognates,” but it is important that gwere-3 means “to praise aloud.” Similarly, דבר DaBHaR, (word, thing – Genesis 11:1) does not initially appear to have religious significance. But the loudly proclaimed ten statements (mistranslated “commandments”) of revealed law in Deuteronomy 4:13 are דברים DeBHaRiM. The word WORD is synonymous with prophecy because the prophets often call their soon-to-be orated prophecy the דבר DaBHaR (word) of the Lord. Daled-Bhet-Resh/ D-BH-R means “speech” in Jeremiah 5:13, and a singing in Judges 5:10. To get from DABHaR to BARD requires an M231 metathesis: 1) Bhet/BH, 2) Resh/R and 3) Dalet/D. At the “WORD” entry you will see how Modern German Wort, or the older Yiddish vort (word) similarly came from ד-ב-ר Dalet-Bhet-Resh. BRANCHES: The American Hedritage Dictionary lists the following cognates of BARD: AGREE, CONGRATULATE, GRACE, GRATEFUL, GRATEFUL, GRATIS, GRATITUDE, GRATUITY, INGRATE and INGRATIATE. More global cognates from דבר DaBHaR at “WORD.” ----------------------------------- Posted from the New Jersey-sized state whose chieif export is predicted to be The Word. Daily posts on Facebook/Twitter-- 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" |