| CABAL QaBaLaH Koof-Bet-Lamed-Hey Kah-BAHL-ah _____ _____קבלה____ ______[QBL] ROOTS: The AHD doesn't treat CABAL (a secret group of insiders). The OED offers a reference to the CABBALA of esoteric KABBALISTS of the Hebrew Bible, but, typically, refuses to credit Hebrew with a borrowing.
In fact there is an attempt to steal the dark, secret sense of CABAL: "… acronym for five intriguing ministers of Charles II (Cliford, Arlington, Buckingham, Ashley and Lauderdale), which gave the word its sinister connotations."
קבלה KABBALISTS had a reputation as a small circle of magicians. Christian CABBALISM became popular as well. If some obscure ministers earned a name as a CABAL, it is only because dark folklore had been fostered about uncanny powers of Jewish masters of קבלה KABBALAH.
(Read up on the Golem of Prague, when a great kabbalist animated an artificial body with a disembodied soul... and how this gave rise to Frankenstein.) The Kabbalists received this wisdom on a master-to-apprentice basis only. This body of knowledge is thus named for קבל QaBeL, to receive , accept (II Chronicles 29:16).
Both RECEIVE and ACCEPT are among the many cognates of "cable" (see "CABLE") at the IE "root" kap (to grasp). Even after busrides in Israel one gets a קבלה KaBaLaH ( RECEIPT, accent on the last syllable; the mystical wisdom has an accent on the second syllable).
CAPACITY is about how much a vessel holds, not grasps. The Edenic Koof-Bet etymon has the capacity to engender many of the alleged derivatives of the IE "root" kap (to grasp), and, as usual, there is a like sounding family of guttural-bilabial "holding" or "hand" words.
These include: חפן K[H]oaPHeN (handful -- see "PUGNACIOUS," כף KahF (palm of the hand -- see "CUFF") and the three "rope" words at "CABLE." BRANCHES: The IE "root" kap holds way too many "deriviatives", as usual. They include: ANTICIPATE, BEHOOVE, CAPABLE, CAPSULE, CAPTION, CAPTIVATE, CAPTOR, CAPTURE, CATCH, CHASE, CHASSISCONCEIVE, DECEIVE, EXCEPT, HAFT, HAVE, HEAVY (see "HEFT" from כבד KaBHaiD, heavy), HAWK, HEAVE, INCEPTION, INTERCEPT, MUNICIPAL, OCCUPY, PARTICIP[ATE, PERCEIVE, PRECEPT, RECEIVE, RECOVER, RECUPERATE, and SUSCEPTIBLE.
Only a handful fit Edenic standards of sound and sense, and have a guttural-bilabial "receiving" element from the Edenic words above.
Non-Indo-European "receive" words with that guttural-bilabial "receiving" element may include; Hungarian kap and Swahili kapekea. Got any more? We'd be glad to accept them. Archived posts, Edenics searches + web games: http://www.edenics.net/
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