Let us observe the little flea, and the Edenic פרעוש PHaRGHOASH (flea). Since the FLEA is universal, nobody had to borrow this term from the Hebrew Bible (I Samuel 24:15). In the millennia after Babel, the essential elements of the world's words for FLEA have not changed that much. Our review of Grimm's Laws continues as we examine the list below:
Phey-Resh-Ayin-Vav-Shin (flea) פרעוש
Phey/PH or F – may shift to another bilabial: P, B or V
Resh/R – may shift to the other liquid: L
Ayin/ [vowel] or GH – may be any vowel or any guttural: C, H, K
Vav/vowel OA or V – may be any vowel and is easily dropped
Shin/SH – may shift to other fricatives: soft C, CH, TS, Z
and as last letter is often dropped.
BRANCHES: פרעוש Phey-Resh-Ayin-Vav-Shin (flea)
Phey/PH or F – may shift to another bilabial: P, B or V
Resh/R – may shift to the other liquid: L
Ayin/ [vowel] or GH – may be any vowel or any guttural: C, H, K
Vav/vowel OA or V – may be any vowel and is easily dropped
Shin/SH – may shift to other fricatives: soft C, CH, TS, Z
and as last letter is often dropped.
Arabic بُرْغوث | BuRĞūθ |
Czech | BLeCH a |
Dutch | V Lo (silent guttural) |
English | Flea (silent guttural) |
French | PuCe (liquid dropped) |
German | FLoH (silent guttural) |
Greek | PSyLa |
Hindi पिस्सू | PiS’S'ū (liquid dropped) |
Hungarian | BoLHa |
Icelandic | FLό |
IE “root” | PLou |
Italian | PuLCe |
Latvian, Lithuanian | BLuSa |
Maltese | BRieGHed |
Korean 벼룩 | ByeoLuG |
Norweg., Swed. all Scandanavian | LoPPe (P and L switch places -- metathesis) |
Polish | PCHŁa (CH and L switch places -- metathesis) |
Quechua (Inca) | PiKi (liquid dropped) |
Rumanian | PuRiCe |
Russian, Ukrainian | BLoKHa |
Slovenian | BoLHa |
Spanish/Port. | PuLGa |
Swahili | KiRoBoto (BRK reversed) |
Tamil பிளே | Piḷē |
Telugu | PuRuGu |
Turkish | PiRe |
Yiddish | FLoy (silent guttural) |
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