NUTS ! Na’ATS Noon-Aleph-Tsadi NUH-UTS________נאץ________[N-U-TS] ROOTS: Because it's slang, NUTS is not taken up seriously. NUTS is an exclamation of disgust, scorn or angry refusal. נאץ Na’ATS (to condemn, spurn, be wrathful) is in Proverbs 1:30 and 16:5. נאץ NeeAyTS is to curse or insult; נאצה NeeAhTSaH is contempt or blasphemy in Isaiah 37:3. BRANCHES: What about WALNUTS or cashew NUTS? The alleged IE “root” is ken-5 (the hypothetical base …of something compressed). A NUT is a poor cognate of NECK – see “NECK.” Nuts are hidden within their pods, but not compressed.
The wide diversity of nut words within IE point to a נ Noon plus צ Tsadi Edenic etymon. There’s Spanish nuez, German Nuss, Dutch noot and Danish nod. Only the versatile צ Tsadi/TS, both dental and fricative, could work.
Noon-Tsadi reverses to nut-in-shell words involving being secret, hidden, wrapped and hard: צנוע TSaNOO[A]h is hidden; צנם TSaNaM is dry, like Syriac צונמה TSOONaMaH (hard stone, and a source for STONE);
צנע TSaN[A]h is to preserve; צנעה TSiN[A]H is secrecy; צנף TSaNaF is to wrap around (see “STEPHANE”); צנפה TSiNayFaH is enveloping (Isaiah 22:18), צנצנת TSiNTSeNeT is a jar or flask (Exodus 16:33). See "STEIN." However it is translated, this צ-נ Tsadi-Noon term was used to protect the manna as a hard pod or shell does a nut.
Besides the dental-nasal of צנעה TSiN[A]H (secrecy), there is a sub-root of ט-מ TeT-Mem seen in טמן DTaMahN (to hide, conceal) and Aramaic-Syriac טמר DTaMaR (to hide under the earth (similar in Akkadian and Arabic).
Many Chinese links to Edenics (already clipped with dropped consonants replaced by accents) are especially hidden because often only an Edenic sub-root is involved, not whole three-consonent words. The dental-nasal sub-root above is behind tun X659 (69), to hide or conceal (in one’s sleeve), to store up, to hoard. ---------- Temporarily trading the Sea of Galilee for Lake Ontario.Archived posts, Edenics searches + web games: http://www.edenics.net/ 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 http://www.edenics.org/ incl. videos in English, Spn., Fr. or Ger. youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=glWG3coAtEg&feature=related |