| We had a huge roundup of world COW words several weeks ago. Many of the words that did not come from בקר BaQaR (cattle) were herded into other relevant entries. One of these required a new entry, "LAMB," so it is served up here: LAMB LeKHeM Lamed-Het-Mem Leh-KHEM לחם [LM] ROOTS: The Indo-Europeanists cannot find a source for LAMB. It is on the lam. There is Dutch lam, German Lamm, Old Norse and Gothic lamb, but nothing older than Anglo-Saxon. The Biblical lamb, כבש KeBHeS, is no help. See "EWE." The New Testament would make a superstar of this creature used for the Pascal "lamb," but it means a young goat or sheep. The Hebrew Bible, however, does have an L-M animal sacrifice word that is the likely source of LAMB. לחם Le[K]HeM is now commonly used for “bread,” and it does mean ":bread" in some verses, but it originally meant "food." The context or meat in many verses like Numbers 28:2 make it clear that לחם Le[K]HeM refers to the meat of sacrifices. לחום La[K]HooM is food or meat in Job 20:23, and "flesh" or "body" in Zephaniah 1:17. The Arabic lahm exclusively means meat or flesh. The quintessensial Arabic meat dish is LAMB.
BRANCHES: Dutch “body” is lichaam [Geert van den Bos], an intriguing link for Eucharist enthusiasts. LAMB-like words appear among world "cow" words: Amharic (Semitic, Ethiopia) lam, Achehnese (Indonesia) lumoe and Sherpa (Nepal) lang. Finnish lemä is COW, while Finnish lammas (sheep) recalls the llama of South America. צמר TSeMeR (wool -- Leviticus 15:32) may reverse to lammas, the "sheep" words of Estonian and Finnish. The ר Resh/R has shifted liquids to L. The second, M-R element of צמר TSeMeR may link up with the (reversed) liquid-nasal of LAMB and LANOLIN - see "RAM." Just as the Arabic “wool" word , souf, is from the Edenic sheep, כבש KeSeBH, the Berber word for sheep, zemer, is from Edenic wool : צמר TSeMeR. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------New ed. of THE ORIGIN OF SPEECHES http://post.ly/1ow4T lightcatcherbooks amazon.comArchived 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 |