KEY
The Edenics Sound-Color Key:
bilabial lip
letters: B, F, V, W],
fricative whistling letters: Soft C,S,TS]
guttural throat letters: Hard C,G,K,Q]
dental tooth
letters: D, T, TS]
liquid tongue letters: L,R]
nasal nose letters: M,N]
ß = reverse
CAP KeePaH
Kahf-Pey-Hey
keep-AH כפה [KP(H)]
ROOTS: CAP is
flopped onto the so-called Indo-European (IE) “root” kaput (head). The make-believe IE “roots” are always much shorter
that the alleged derivatives, so where does the end-T come from? Doubtless a nod to the Latin head, caput,
head. See כפת KeFeT (a button, knob, small head) and כפתור KaPHToaR (ornamental crown) at “CAPITAL.”
World “cap” words have
a guttural-bilabial, and no T.
See below.
Not to disturb traditionalists in Jerusalem or Rome, but the
Arabic COIF or headdress, the kafia, should predate the כפה KeePaH (skullcap, yarmulke). While the small,
CAPOLA-shaped CAP is not found in the Hebrew Bible, the כ-פ Kaph-Pey root of “bending,” כפף KaFahF (bent, bowed – Isaiah 58:5), is seen at entries like “COUPLE,” “CUP” and “GIBBON.”
Relevant guttural-bilabial terms are cut from the same cloth. See the
large family of concave K-BH/F/P words at "CAVE." One chapeau (hat in French) in the Bible is
the קובע QOABH[A]h (helmet) worn by Saul in I Samuel
17:38. “Hat” is also כובעא KOABHGHAh in Aramaic and Syriac. As seen below, that end-Ayin is often rendered
as the guttural GH. Middle-eastern K-P
hats/caps also include the Arabic KUFI (skullcap), KEFFIYEH (from kūfiya), qoubaa, the Ethiopic qobe (turban) and the
Hittite kupahi.
BRANCHES: The Swahili cap, kofia, came
immediately from the Arabic kafia, but is ultimately from the guttural-bilabial קובע QOABH[A]h (hat, headgear), and the כפה KeePaH (skullcap) that a bishop could wear, or the domed covering of a
building.
חפף [K]HaPHahPH is to cover, protect, shield (Deuteronomy
33:12). Other guttural-bilabial
coverings include חפה K[H]ooPaH (canopy), חפוי K[H]aPHOOY (covered), KaPoaReT (cover, curtain), QaRKePHeT (skull, head)
and עב GHa(V) (thickness of cloud).
The HOOPOO bird looks like its
head is covered by a CAPE. Having
feet uncovered is a guttural-bilabial, Het-Phey
antonym, יחףYaK[H]ePH. CAPE, CHAPEL, CHAPERONE, CHAPLAIN and CHAPS
are all covered here. The two-letter
root of Het-Pey shielding may be seen in רחף Ra[K]HaiPH (to hover) at “HOVER.”
See "CAPITAL,"
"CAVE," “COVER” and "HAT."
These global “cap” words can support the logical connection
to the head, the Yiddish kop (not
a Latin-like KPT/D root), but are stronger support for a KP Edenic root of “covering.”
Albanian kapak; Armenian kepi; Azerbajani papak (KP reversed or ß); Chichewa/Bantu kapu; Estonian kiubur; French
čepice, chapeau,or képi;
German haube (bonnet, cap), Käppi or Kappe; Classic Greek καπάκι kapáki
and the Modern Greek kape'llo; Gujarati Kēpa;
Icelandic húfa; Igbo (Southern Nigeria). okpu; Indonesian pici, peci (ß); Irish caipín; Italian: cappello or cuffietta; Korean kaeb;
Latvian vāks (ß); Lithuanian
kepuraitė; Marathi Kĕpa ; Norwegian kappe; Portuguese capa; Punjabi Kaipa; Somali koofiyad (see Semitic above); Spanish (and
Portuguese) chapeau; Swedish keps; Turkish, ayapka, kapak; Uzbek qopqoq; Welsh chap, gap; Zulu ikepisi.
Slavic CAPs:
Cepice – Czech
Čiapka (cap, skullcap) -- Slovak
czapka
(cap, covering, head) -- Polish
Kapa – Bosnian, Croatian, Macedonian,
Serbian
Kapachka -- Bulgarian
Kapelusz (hat, cap) – Polish
kepka Кепка – Russian, Ukrainian
Kiepka – Belarusian
Veka (eyelid, cap) – Slovenian ß
Veko (cap,
lid) – Slovak ß
German hoods (also head-wear) include the Kappe and
Kapuze. The coffee-colored Capuchin monks hooded habit named your cup of creamed Expresso.
Many “hat” words display an added liquid (L,R) to
the Edenic etymon.
Examples
of an added L
in cap-like “hat” words include: Czech kLobouk, Hungarian kaLap, Slovak kLobak and Slovenian kLobuk.
Examples
of an added R
include: Estonian kabaR, Latvian cepuRe, and Lithuanian kepuRa
More
added liquids
at entries like “SLACK” and “ROBOT.”
The
Lithuanian skryba has preceded the guttural with an
nonhistoric S. Only its K-B and A are
historic, not unusual for that part of the world.
More heads at “GIBBON.”