new entry in The E-Word Digital Dict., thanks to an Aztec bug.
GUZZLE K[H]a$ahL Het-Samekh-Lamed
Kha-SULL______חסל ______[KH-S-L à GZL]
ROOTS: GUZZLE (to drink greedily) is from origin unknown.
חסל K[H]a$ahL is a verb of quick and utter devouring, attached to locusts in Deuteronomy 28:38.
חסיל K[H]a$eeYL is a species of locust (I Kings 8:37). The post-Biblical חסול K[H]ee$SOOL means liquidation. The original fuel GUZZLERS were bugs, not cars.
A liquid shift away is חסר K[H]a$eR (lacking) and חסר K[H]e$eR, want, poverty.
גזל GeZeL means theft or plunder (Proverbs 22:22). The sound correspondence is stronger, no guttural and fricative shifts are needed. This remains a number two theory of emetology, since stolen things are not necessarily GUZZLED. Nor are GUZZLED things necessarily stolen.
BRANCHES: Nahautl (Aztec) conchili, a nasalization (extra N), is a type of locust or grasshopper. [FA]
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