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FIL(AMENT) [K]HeBHeL Het-Bhet-Lamed He-VEL חבל [HVL à FL] ROOTS: The alleged IE “root” of FILAMENT is gwhi (thread, tendon). חבל [K]HeBHeL is a rope or string (Zechariah 11:7). See “BALE .”
The ח-ב Het-Bhet sub-root of being tied together is set by words like חב [K]HaBH (indebted, responsible -- see “OWE”), חביב
[K]HaBeeYB (dear, beloved),חבל [K]HaBHoaL (to pawn), חבר [K]HaBHahR (to join), חבר[K]HaBHeR (friend),חבק [K]HaBHaQ (to embrace) and חבש [K]HBHaSH (to bind). The Bhet/BH-Lamed/L back of חבל [K]HeBHeL dominates as the entry goes on.
The B-L affiliations below follow the B-L sense of two-together seen at "BALL." BRANCHES: The listed cognates include DEFILE, FILAR, FILE, FILIFORM, FILIGREE, FILLET, FILOSE, FILUM, and PROFILE. In Hawaiian, where Bhet is often a U, a string is a kaula.
חבל [K]HeBHeL also means district or suburbs (Joshua 19:9), as though the towns were connected by the same economic rope. The Het-Bhet-Lamed thread continues at “HOBBLE.”
The reconstructed IE "root" gwhi corrrectly captures the Het/K[H]-Bhet/BH front of חבל [K]HeBHeL; an actual word like Italian filo (thread, wire) derives from the Bhet/BH-Lamed/L back of חבל [K]HeBHeL
Follow the thread of bilabial-liquids from more Italian derivatives: fila (line, row, list), filaccioso (thready, fibrous), filamento (filament), filato (yarn), fillettare (to fillet, to thread), filiale (branch; adj. filial), fillibustiere (filibuster, swindler) and filobus (trolley bus… led by a wire).
English FILIBUSTER has a strange etymology , and manipulating F-L strings or wires may be a better source than the present guess : a form of a Dutch freebooter.
To stick with Het-Bet-Lamed for F-L words, חבל [K]HeeBaiL is to waste or destroy (Isaiah 54:16). The more exciting possibility from these Italian חבל [K]HeBHeL words was that FILIAL is also a Bhet-Lamed "string" word.
Both all the linked cities of Argobh, כל חבל ארגב (Deuteronomy 3:4) and the band of prophets, נבאים חבל , are about AFFILIATES.
The most basic human AFFILIATION is with our children. More than English FOAL or FILLY (given other sources), French has the best-known F-L children words from Latin filia, daughter, and filius, son. The French fils, son, and fille, daughter, deserve better than the published etymologies: 1) A root bheue (to be, exist, grow) and 2) dhe(i) (to suck).
Like the Italian above, other French F-L words pull strings reaching all the way to Eden:
Fil (thread, wire), filandreux (stringy), file (line, queue, succession), filer (to shadow, tail, follow a line), filet (net), filiale (subsidiary), filiforme ( spindly) and filon (vein).
More than attached associates, les fils (children) are in line as our successors. Archived posts, Edenics searches + web games: http://www.edenics.net/
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