THIEF TaFa$ Tahf-Phey-Samekh Tah-FUS________תפס_________[TF(S)] ROOTS: The AHD has no Indo-European “root” for catching the common THIEF. Webster’s offers Anglo-Saxon thefe, the bramble. Edenics would be too embarrassed to offer such a stretch, but one guesses that thorns might "catch" one’s clothes. The older and more logical source is תפש TaFaS, to seize – Deuteronomy 4:17 or 22:28. It is also in Jewish Aramaic. In Proverbs 30:9 it is specifically rendered “steal.” חטף [K]HaDTahF is to snatch (Judges 21:21), spelledחתף [K]HaTahF in Job 9:12. Amharic (Semitic, Ethiopia) has qatafi to mean "cheater." (Any similarity to a Libyan dictator may be purely coincidental.) תפס TaFa$ is the modern spelling of תפש TaFaS. אסף A$ahF is to collect or gather . ת-פ Tahf-Phey is the “grabbing hold” sub-root of תפר TaPHahR, to sew together. The second sub-root is Phey-Resh, פרורים PeROORiM or crumbs, pieces, (see “FRIABLE”), or, reversing פ-ר P-R, the shards that have been טרף DTaRaF (torn or ripped apart) – see “TROPHY.” תפר TaPHahR, to stitch or sew together, then, is the grabbing hold of that which has been torn or FRAYED. See "FRIABLE."
BRANCHES: Tet–Bet is largely evident among Germanic THIEVES: German dieb, Dutch dief, Danish and Norwegian tyv and Swedish tjuyv. Latvian dabuo and tap, to take, hold, seize, has been linked to Sumerian dab and dib, to hold, taske, seize. The Hungarian tolvaj and the Japanese nusubito (reversing תפש TaFaS) may also be caught in a lineup of suspects. Also reversing תפש Tahf-Phey-Sin is tsivot, number five for the Hopi Indians near Utah. As seen elsewhere, Edenic “hand” words provide natural terms for the number five. Only a dental shift away is Polish dopasc, to reach, catch or overtake. Greek klepto (as in KLEPTOMANIAC) and Modern Greek klef’tis have a dental-bilabial, but are closer to a more violent snatching, טרף DTeReF – see “TROPHY.” Also see “KNAVE.” ------------Back in NYC, if you took your eyes off it (even a chained-up bike) -- it was gone. Here in Israel, people are aggressive about returning lost objects.New ed. of THE ORIGIN OF SPEECHES http://post.ly/1ow4T lightcatcherbooks amazon.com Archived posts, Edenics searches + web games: http://www.edenics.net/ Edenics DVDs. 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 |