AXE K[H]aTS(eeYN) Het-Tsadi-Yod-Noon Year-RAH___ חצין___[K[H]-A-TS àAKTS à AX] ROOTS: The most basic implement, the AXE, surely has an Indo-European origin, hopes the AHD, with their reconstructed IE root agwesi. Old English aex is traced to the Germanic.
חצי [K]HaTSeeY means half (Exodus 24:6). The light arrow, חץ [K]HaiTS (Genesis 49:23 -- see “HASTATE”), and the heavy חצין K[H]aTSeeYN (ax ) splits things. This AX word is not in the Hebrew Bible, but it is confirmed as ancient by the Aramaic above and by Akkadian hassinu (ax).
Greek axine is too obviously borrowed from Semitic to be comfortably displayed as the immediate source of Latin ascia and Gothic aqizi. Yes, Brumhilda, Gothic is Germanic. BRANCHES: Other Germanic "axe" words do not resemble agwesi: Danish økse , Norwegian øks and Swedish yxa.
There are other Biblical words for axe, and there are countless ways to think "axe."
Estonian, Finnish (kirves) , Latvian and Lithuanian (kirvis) use חרב K[H]eRe(V), sword -- see "HARPOON."
French hache and Spanish hacha, from הכה HaKeH (strike ! Numbers 22:6, infinitive at "NOXIOUS") , are not considering the implement as much as the HACKING of their HATCHET job.
In contrast, Romanians and Russians (topor topor) are thinking ahead to the severed pieces they are making; an M312 reveals פרט PaRaDT and פרד PaRahD (see "PART").
To a Filipino the axe is making sections or fractions, not parts; palako (axe) echos פלח PHeLahK[H] (section -- see "FLAKE") or several bilabial-liquid-gutturals at "BREAK."
It is predictable that many such words will have the guttural-dental ring of "cut" (see "CUT"), and that Asian words will reverse these. The Korean axe is dokki dokki 도끼 . -------------------- Maybe I returned to the Galilee too soon. Space heaters keep me from trying to type with gloves on.Archived posts, Edenics searches + web games: http://www.edenics.net/ Edenics DVDs, new ed. of book: THE ORIGIN OF SPEECHES (out now). 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 |