| CRYO(GENICS) QaRaH Koof-Resh-Hey Kah-RAH___________קרה______ ___[KR] ROOTS: CRYOGENICS is the science of freezing things, from Greek kryos (cold, frost). קרה QaRaH is the "icy cold" of Psalms 147:17. קר QoaR is cold (Genesis 8:22); קרח QeRaK[H] is frost (Genesis 31:40).
Greek kryos is also the etymon for CRUST; see "CRUST" for the Indo European “root” of CRYO-. For guttural-liquid terms of the opposite, of heat, see below. A CRUST, such as the membrane formed atop a freezing liquid, is seen in the ג-ל Gimel-Lamed (also guttural-liquid) terms at “COLD.” BRANCHES: Edenic extensions of קר QahR (cold to the touch) include קרש QaRaSH (to clot, congeal, coagulate) and קרם QaRaM (to form a crust). The usual R-to-L liquid (tongue letter) shift brings words like CHILL, CONGEAL, COLD, COOL, GELATIN, GELID, JELL and JELLY - all of which are attributed to the IE “root” gel-3 (cold, to freeze). These are given a closer etymon at “COLD.”
The opposite of guttural-liquid-guttural קרח QeRaK[H] ice is the fiery guttural-guttural-liquid גחל COAL – see “COAL.” More guttural-liquid opposites at “CHAR” and “KILN.”
Turkish snow is kar, just as the cold weather term, צנה TSeeNaH, gave English SNOW. See "SNOW." The GLD/T words recall the Talmudic term גלד GeLeD (ice), related to the congeal-clot term in Job 16:15 (GeLeD - weakly translated "sores" (scabs) or "skin"). הגליד HeeGLeeYD is to grow skin over a wound.
The CLOTTING, CRUSTING and CRYSTALIZING of cells, a CONGEALING or GELATION, in the healing process is naturally akin to freezing. Freezing water grows a “skin.” Swedish gradde (cream) and Italian gelato (ice cream) are two examples of this skin-cold-cream-GELATIN connection.
The modern Hebrew word for ice cream, גלידה GLeeDaH, is not a borrowing. In fact, it points to the Semitic origins of ice cream words like glace (French – see “GLISSADE”), helado (Spanish), and jaatelo (Finnish). Italian gelato not only means ice cream, but also the adjective “frozen.”
Galid is snow and jalida is freeze in Arabic. Aramaic-Syriac גלידא GiLeeYDAh is ice. Reverse G-L-S to get SHeLeG (snow). Theluji is Swahili snow. Not only is the cold COOL from words like קרורQaROOR (to cool), but the "casual" cool is from קרי QeReeY, as S. R. Hirsch renders the word in Leviticus 26:21.
Rumanian "cold" reverses to rece, while other COLD terms are closer to Hebrew קר QaR, such as Japanese kareru (to freeze) and kori (ice). Maya keel is cold; kelil is winter. Cold in Swedish is kall, in Russian khalodni, and in Finnish kylma.
One would expect Chinese "cold" words to be reversed, and maybe shifted and nasalized. Thus they have liang, cold, cool and leng, cold X387 (<---, N. S-G, S-L).
Latin caldus (warm) is the opposite of COLD because the original language (Hebrew) has built-in antonyms like קלי QaLeeY (toast, roast – see “ALKALI” and “CALORIE”).. Think TOASTY.
See "CHAR" and “SCAR” for antonyms of the cold KR root, like כור KOOR (furnace). See "CAUTERIZE" for Dutch koud (hot). Basque hotz (cold) is likely a GLD or KLT variation that dropped its middle L.
Note CHALAZA, from Greek khalaza (hailstone), for its IE “root” gheled (hail). Frozen rain, hail, is much like Arabic galid (snow). We also get, from the Greek-Semitic connection, a better etymon for HAIL than the given IE base kaghlo (small pebble.)
The Greek rhigos, cold, gave English RHIGOSIS (the sensation of cold). Simply reverse Koof-Resh, with the guttural downshifting to G. See "CLOT," “COLD,” "FROST," and, for an added ski down the GLACIER, "GLISSADE."
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