| ABODE BaYiT Bet-Yod-Tahf Ba-YITT_____ בית ____[BT à BD] ROOTS: As happens too often, the simplistic, Semitically-challenged reference books lump ABODE (dwelling) with unrelated words of similar sounds, like "confide," "federal" and "fidelity." The words behind the myth of the weird Indo-European "root" bheidh (to persuade, compel, confide) is treated sanely at ”AFFIDAVIT," "BET," "FAITH," and "VOTE."
Old English biden, to stay, tarry is given for BIDE, ABIDE and ABODE, but the Amerucan Heritage Dictionary compels us to have no confidence in their bizarre etymology.
An ABODE or dwelling is a common dental shift (Tahf/T to D) from בית BaYiT (house, home -- Genesis 33:17). Cary Elias has no antipathy to Semitic, and notes the abad element in Pakistan's capital Islamabad. In Punjabi and Urdu: اسلام آباد Islām ābād means the "Abode of Islam." The abad element is found in other city names such as Hyderabad (India), Jalal-Abad (Kyrgyzsta), Jalalabad (Afghanistan), Jalilabad (Azerbaijan) and Firooz Abad (Iran). BRANCHES: The novice Edenics reader quickly learns how the Bet/B and Tahf/T of בית BaYiT can shift bilabials (lip-made letters) and dentals (tooth-made letters) to be the source of many global ABODES.
These are not historical, regional variations, like BETHLEHEM, PA, BETHESDA, MD or should also American synagogue names like Beth Shalom or Beth Aharon. These are prehistoric spin-offs of a primeval Bet-Tahf from our Edenic or Proto-Earth homeland.
A brief sample: . EDENIC B aYi T בית (dwellingplace, house, home, family) Arabic Bay T Cambodian Wa T temple Cornish Bo D house English Boo TH hut German Bu De Irish Bo TH hut Japanese Ba Tsu family Lithuanian Bu Tas house Norse Bú D Siamese Wa T temple Thai Wha T temple Ukrainian bu dynok Welsh Bo D residence Sanskrit vis is a house; the source of VAISYA (settler). BayiT can be read [V]aYi(S).
RW adds bilabial - dental words for a building: budova, Czech and Slovakian ; batiment, French; Gebäude, German; budynek , Polish; budovat , Slovakian. Then, for the verb “to build”: batir, French and budovatsh in Polish.
Of course, there will also be spin-offs of BaYiT where the bilabial-dental (lip-tooth sequence is reversed. Probably the best known is TEPEE (TEEPEE or TIPI), the Native American tent-home, from Dakota (Siouan) dwelling, house.
Cultures with guttural-fricative "house" words, like English "house" and Spanish casa were thinking of a covering or shelter, not a dwelling. See "HOUSE." ---------------
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