Thanks to Regina W. for adding important global cognates to our "APE" entry below. Thanks to translation sites, any of you can ape Regina's contribution, and also add global cognates that often lead to insights beyond the chosen Edenic source word. APE QOAPH Koof-Vav-Phey KOAWF קוף [Q-OA-PH à AP] ROOTS: Linguists believe that human words evolved from ape grunts, but they don’t know where the word APE came from. APE is conceded to be from an unknown, non-IE loan word, coming to English from Sanskrit kap . For a K-P ape, there isקוף QOAPH (ape - I Kings 10:22). Sanskrit kapi (monkey) can surely come from the Edenic homeland where scientists place the first literate homo sapiens. Genesis has no problem with thousands of years of pre-literate knuckle-walkers. They may be anatomically classified as hominids, but Biblically speaking, such hominids before Adam had a soul and large braincase "breathed into his nostrils" -- that is, a hominid without language, is merely a great ape.
BRANCHES: The Middle Egyptian ape is the GWP or GOOPH; a Koof/Q-to-G guttural shift is mild and common. In Amazonian languages (and they didn’t borrow an ape word) a monkey is a hipi, huapo, huaphuap or faagu. The HP words show a Koof/Q –to-H sift (see “HEAD”), while the FG has reversed the same GP that Egyptian got from the diversification of Koof-Phey at Babel. (Amazonian data is from Fernando Aedo.) Shifting both the guttural (throat letter) and the bilabial (lip letter) offers an alternative way to the GB of GIBBON (see “GIBBON”). Thanks to the Sanskrit we don’t have to contemplate the Koof/Q of QOAPH shifting to a vowel. But gutturals can do so, just as "amorous" is related to Sanskrit kama (desire, love), from the Edenic Het-Mem terms seen at the “'AMITY" entry. Other English A from Edenic Koof/ Q words include AESTAS from QaYiTS (summer). Ape is abe in Danish, aap in Dutch, ahv in Estonian, apina in Finnish, Affe in German, api in Icelandic, and ape in languages like Norwegian. The dropped or shifted and hushed Koof/Q of QOAPH seems to appear reversed in Czech opice. [RW]. The French got CHIMPANZEE from an unknown native source. The CHIMP part is an APE from קוףQOAPH, but the guttural softened and an M was added-- common for words ending in MB or MP (see “CLAMP” or “OLYMPICS.”) The Catalan ape is mico, possibly a reversed כמו K'MOA (like, similar to). See "COMMON." The Italian ape, scimmia, recalls SIMIAN (ape, apelike). SIMIAN, and Latin simi (ape) is thought by the Semitically-challenged ones to come from Greek simos (flat-nosed) plus "-an." But the ape is far more significant as being similar to humans than for having some species with flat noses. Thus see Edenic etymons like סמל $eMeL (likeness) at "SIMULATION." CODA (tail, what some animals still cling to, from קץ QaiTS, extremity): It is no sin to think that humans ARE "evolved" apes, as long as one knows that it is the Creator that took existing material, the ape genome, or, more poetically (" formed from dust of the ground" Genesis 2:7) and gave Adam a blown-out, an expanded braincase, or, more poetically, "breathed into his nostrils" (same verse) a brain, language program (Edenic), and divine soul. So, we are part animal (as the apes remind us), but part divine.... The Torah or Hebrew Bible is the owner's manual to maintain and upgrade the "image of the Lord" part of us. The "I love Lucy" and "Out of Africa" anthropologists may well be right about eons (from יום YoaM, day or period) of knuckle-walkers who preceded homo sapiens. But they weren't human, not speakers and thinkers with real language. Not children of Adam. The bone-pickers haven't found one prehistoric human skeleton with the floating throat bone, the hyoid. This delicate bone allows for human speech. Do you really think it evolved by accident? Even worse, the oldest hyoid bone ever found was in the Carmel Caves near Haifa, Israel. At the Haifa zoo last week, I enjoyed watching the death-defying antics of the baboons. But I went away with some sobering ethical admonition as well. It is time to get off our tails, and to work on our divine part. Edenics DVDs 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. youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=glWG3coAtEg&feature=related |