TERZA (RIMA) TiLa(S)
Tahf-Lamed-Tahf as Saph
Till-US_____________תלת_____________[TLS à TRZ]
ROOTS: TERZA RIMA is an Italian verse form. Latin tres is
three, as is Sanskrit tri and Greek trias. The IE “root” for three (3)
is trei.
תלתTiLa(S) or TiLaT (three - Daniel 7:20) is Aramaic, merely an L to R liquid shift away. תלתא T'La(S)Ah is the
targum's Aramaic translation of שלושהSHiLOASHaH (three) in Genesis 6:10 and elsewhere. Aramaic often informs Edenic but is still
post-Tower-of-Babel; the Edenic שShin/ SH is consistently rendered as a T in
Aramaic (see "TAURUS").
BRANCHES: TERTIARY (of the third
rank) echoes “third” in Arabic, taelit.
Arabic number three is thilasa, the
standard corruption of Edenic שלושהSHiLOASHaH (three). Arabic 30 is
thalāthūna Cognates
of TERZA (RIMA) from Germanic include
TERCE, TERCENTENARY, TERCEL, TERCET, TERCINE,THREE, THRICE, THIRTY and THIRTEEN;
from Latin TREY, TRIO, TRAMMEL, TRECENTO, TREPHINE, TRIUMVIRATE and TROCAR;
THIRD and RIDING are from Old English and Old Norse; TRI- as in TRICOLOR and
TRIPLE are also from Latin; Greek also has a TRI-, along with TRICLINIUM,
TRIDACTYL, TRITONE and more; TRIMURTI is from Sanskrit; more Greek 3's are
TRIAD, TRICHOTOMY, TRIERARCH, TRITIUM, etc; Latin adds ATTEST, CONTEST, DETEST,
OBTEST, PROTEST, TESTAMENT, TESTIMONY, and TESTIFY; SITAR (M312 S-L) is from a Persian three; TRINE and TRINITY are from Latin trini (three each); and Russian adds
TROIKA.
Farsi “trinity” is taslis < M132 תלתTiLa(S), the Aramaic # three. The
Fijian 3 is tolu.
In Austronesian languages, there’s Javanese: telu, Balinese and Malagasy: telu,
Sundanese: tilu, Madurese: tello, Sawu: tallu,
Acehnese: tolu, Tagalog and Hiligaynon: tatlo, Koronadal
Blaan (Papua, New Guinea) tlu and Maori and Rapanui (Easter Island): toru. More
Austronesian below.
The German “third,” dritte, shifts the first two letters of Aramaic TiLaT. 1/3 is drittel. German
thirteen is dreizehn, while three, drei, like TRI- (the
English prefix for three), drops the end of the Aramaic three. In music terms Terz is used. In Germanic “third”s: Danish dritte; Dutch terts; Norw. and Swed. Tredje.
Greek
trias (three),
tris
(thrice) and tritos (third) suggest an etymon with a
fricative/dental 3rd consonant The Aramaic), more than a TR-vowel
(the IE).
Number words are famously carried by
merchants. Yet forms of Arabic “three” only appear in Africa, and forms of the
Aramaic “three” are widespread -- even though these people did not ply the Silk
Road. (Entries like this demonstrate why Aramaic deserves to count as “Edenic.”)
Fijian and Samoan tolu are “three” words that were not borrowed. They suggest that
Austronesian did not shift L to R in some prehistoric word for ‘three.”
Another example of a Shin/ SH to T change from Edenic to IE is seen in
the word for "there", tam, in Slavic languages. There” in Edenic is שם SHahM
(Genesis 2:12). Again, there is a Biblical Aramaic source for the Slavic: תמה TaMaH. Also again, the Arabic “there” (thamma) is not
relevant.
The Slavic family makes it clear that
the original “three” word was a Semitic TRS/TRT, not a TR-vowel that dropped a
last consonant in common overuse.
תלת
TiLa(S) or TiLaT is Aramaic, the standard form of שלוש SHiLOASH (three)
(Note how “third”
is more stable than the common, likely to be shortened, “three”)
Treciaja (third); try (three) -- Belarus
Treći (third); tri (three) -- Bosnian,
Croatian, Serbian
Treti (third); tri (three) -- Macedonian
Tretina (third); tri (three) -- Slovak
Tretiy (third); trʹokh (three) -- Ukrainian
Tretji (third); tri (Slovenian) --- Slovenian
tret'ya третья (third);
tri три
(three) -- Russian
Trzeci (third), trzy (three) -- Polish
Třetina (third) -- Czech
Lest one dismiss the Slavic dental or
fricative from Aramaic ת Tahf/Sahf as an
adverbial genitive, consider how THRICE is thought to come from Old English thrīga.
Forms of שלוש SHaLoaSH (3) as TR
include TERCE a third, from Old French tierce,
a third, TERCEL, TERCENTARY, TERCER, TERCET, TERCINE, TERN, TERNARY,
TERTIAL,TERTIATE and TERZETTO.
Edenicist Joshua Ben discovered that many
global “three” words may be variations of Samekh-Yod-Vav-Noon, סיון $iYVan -- Esther 8:9, “Then were the king’s scribes called, at that
time, in the THIRD month. The Akkadian is simanu (fixed date,
time). The Akkadian S-M and older Edenic
Samekh-Noon allow for the many
fricative-dental “three” words, like Chinese
(borrowed by Japanese) san
(three). The Old Chinese is sum
and the Thai is saam.
Some languages groups did preserve the ו Vav inסיון $iYVaN (3rd month… three) so that
Samekh-
Vav gave earth many fricative-bilabial THREE
words too. These include many African
variations of saba and seba.
Amazingly, some languages have a more complete סיון $iYVaN,
like Bidiyo (an Afro-Asiatic dialect) THREE, suban. Perhaps the best
language family is Native American
(Amerind) . Among the tribes native to California, the Maidu is sapu,
and the two dialects of Yokuts are sophin and soppin. See THRICE SLICING up at “SLICE.”