BALL BahLahL
Bet-Lamed-Lamed
BALL-UL בלל [BLL]
ROOTS: The
alleged IE “root” of BALL is bhel-2 (to blow, swell).
בלום BaLOOM (swollen) and בלט BaLaDT (to protrude
– see “BLOAT”) address a BL root of filling or expanding. Other Edenic words match the rolling, mixed
up sense of being all BALLED
UP in a BALL
of confusion. בללBaLaL is to confound (as human vocabulary was in Genesis 11:9 with the
BABBLE of Babel), בלול BaLOOL is to mingle together (Leviticus 2:5), בליל BiLeeYL (fodder, literally means ‘mixture”), and
בלבול BiLBOOL means confusion.
See “BABBLE” (confused, mixed up language). The one original
language of Genesis 11: 1 is “confounded,” aב-ל Bet-Lamed word, in Genesis 11:7.
For the built-in antonym (BL shifting to BR) there is the unmixed or “pure” language, SaPHaH
BROORaH, שפה ברורה of Zephaniah 3:9 – see “PURE.”
Bilabial-liquid related words include ערבל [E]eRBaiL (to mix, confuse) and ערב Ayin-Resh-Bet terms of mixing, confusing and swarming. Rolling
and mixing occurs on both the BALLFIELD and BALLROOM, as seen below. A BL antonym which prevents overlapping is גבול
GiBHOOL
(border – Genesis 10:19).
Edenic words containing the sub-root Bet/Bhet-Lamed imply a
mixing of elements:
גבול GiBHOOL is a border between two countries; חבל [K]HeBHeL,
a string, is threads twisted together -- ( גבל GeBHeL, braid, and
כבל
KeBHeL, strong rope, are taken up at “CABLE”) ; טבל DTeBHeL is
to immerse one thing in another – see “DIP;”
יבל
YaBHahL is
a stream of flowing waters, מבול
MaBHOOL
(the flood of Genesis) was a cataclysmic geological mixture of biblical
proportions, where the dryness and seas
mixed ; the נבל NaBHaL
is a churl who lacks propriety, an
impious fool who mixes the sacred and profane (Isaiah 32:5 – see “VILE;” נבל NaBHaL is also a lyre (Psalms 150:3, on which, like
a harp, notes are mixed -- rather than the plucking of single notes ; שביל
SH’BHeeYL is a path that links spaces, (allowing a mixture
of) different areas (Psalms 77:20).
With a “weak letter” like ה Hey separating ב Bet and ל Lamed in בהל BaHaL, to be
alarmed, dismayed, “confounded” (Lexicon --
Genesis 45:3) it is expected that
ב-ל B-L confusion and mixed emotions are involved. בהלה BeHaLaH is terror
(Leviticus 20:19). Variations are בלה BaLaH and בלהה BaLHaH
(terror). The bilabial-liquid of FEAR may be distantly related (see “FEAR”). Some feel that the ב-ל Bet-Lamed in אבל
ABHeL (mourning,
bereavement – see “OWL”) also expresses
this confusion and terror.
תבל TeyBHaiL
is This World of mixed elements. Tahf-Bhet-Lamed, תבל TeBHeL, means spice, confusion or lewdness. See “LEWD.” The “confusion” belongs here, as
seen in תבלול
TaBHLOOL, mixture, blending. Spices mix flavors in culinary mixtures. The “lewdness” refers to illicit couplings or
sexual mixtures (Leviticus 18:23). The בעל Ba’[A]L, husband (Exodus 21:3) and deity בעל BA’AL are involved
in sexual couplings. See “BULLY.”
Two other Bet-Lamed words of mixing, or togetherness, appear in
the “A-” entry of Aleph
as : אבל ABHaL, Aleph-Bhet-Lamed, means
but, only (Genesis 42:21; “but” in Daniel
10:7, like Farsi vali). Our ב-ל Bet-Lamed
means a mixture of components.
A + BL could thus mean NOT mixed together
with others – as in “but” and “only.”
For the German “but,” aber,
merely shift the Lamed/L to R. For the
Spanish “but,” pero, the bilabial is shifted too, Bhet/BH to P.
The other Aleph-Bhet-Lamed word is pronounced אבל ABHeL, meaning: a mourner or the verb to mourn – see
“OWL” and “WAIL.” The noun of mourning
is אבל
AyBHeL.
Once again the two-letter sub-root is ב-ל B-L togetherness (seen here at “BALL," and
documented globally by Merritt Ruhlin as "the world’s most popular sound
for “two” – see Ruhlin in The Origin of Speeches. Mourning is about feeling the isolation of
losing the two-ness, the relationship with a loved one. The ב-ל Bet-Lamed mix or relationship has been negated (Aleph
prefix) by death. See “A-“ for the Aleph prefix of negation (like asymmetrical).
The ב-ל Bet-Lamed sub-root material is elaborated
more, and laid out alphabetically in the new chapter seven of The Origin of
Speeches. The related liquid-bilabial
mixing word, ערב Ayin-Resh-Bhet, is at
“SCRAMBLE.”
BRANCHES: Edenic Bet-Vav-Lamedבול BOOL (Isaiah 44:19)
is like a papal BULL, plural BULLA and BULLAE.
These are BALLS of soft lead, clay, etc. flattened by a seal for authenticated
official documents – see “BULLETIN.”
BOLUS is from a Greek word meaning "lump." Some of these
recall בול
BOOL (lump - Isaiah 44:19)
– also see “BULLETIN.”
The round BOLL or seedpods of the BOLL WEEVIL are a
natural BALL.
BALE,
BALEEN, BALLET (see below), BALLOT, BALOON, BOLL, BOULEVARD (see "BOULEVARD"), BOWL, BULK, BULL, BULWARK, FOLLICLE,
BOOL, PELLET, and PHALLUS are linked to IE “root” bhel. The first part of BILLIARDS belongs here too. A BOLN is also swollen and ball-like.
Spanish
baile (dance), like BALLET, names dance for “mixed movement” than joyful
leaping – see “DANCE.” BALARINA and BALLAD are invited to this BALL. The BL in
BALTER (to tangle, to walk or dance clumsily), is a clumsy opposite of the
graceful mixing in dance. BOLERO, meter
in Spanish music, echoes the BL theme of mixing, while the BOLA is thrown at
the legs of cattle to entangle them.
The
פ-ו-ר Pey-Vav-Resh, POOR (the round, pebble-like
lots cast in Esther 3:7)
resemble a Swahili (m)pira (ball), an Australian Aborigine pula or boola (ball, lump), a Tahitian poro (ball) or a Spanish pelota (ball). These BULLETS, PELLETS or
BALLOTS were rolled or BOWLED or PELTED.
A
small ball that we swallow as medicine is a PILL. A lip-made or bilabial B easily rolls into a
lip-made or bilabial P, and vice versa.
To
roll in Tibetan is b'al, while po lo is a ball.
To
בלבל
BiLBail (confuse) a consonant or syllable is
to make it different -- mbalimbali in
Swahili. The common L to R change may account for the names of mixed race,
mixed language peoples such as the BERBERS of North Africa and the BARBARIANS
of Eurasia. (See “BARBARIAN.”) "Together" is beraber in the richly mixed vocabulary of Turkish. Besides [A]hRaBHaH (desert), the
Ayin-Resh-Bet words above are related to another mixed-race of greater
prominence, the ARABS. Genesis 16 establishes Ishmael’s regal Hamito-Semitic
lineage.
See
"BABBLE" for the BALLED UP sense of BL; see "WALLOW" for
the rolling sense of BL and LB words.
Here are BALL words like the REVOLVER and EVOLUTION itself. See
"BLOAT," "BOULDER" and "VAULT" for the swollen
sense of BL; see "BALE" for a tied-up ball. BULB and BULBOUS could be lumped into these
BL balls, and BOLLIX
is to bungle. (Mark Feffer)
For
BR
antonyms of clarity, see “PURE.”
The
element of confusion (BL),
occurs with two objects instead of one. The world’s most common words
for “two” are BR, BL and PL (The
Origin of Language, Matthew Ruhlen, Table 10). One example is Swahili’s
number two: mbili; the prefix for a
double or twin is -wili. Zulu –bili means “both” and
“double.” Shifting B to P in PAIR words include: Finnish pari is a couple or pair,
French paire, German paar, Hungarian par, Polish para, and further away,
bilabial-liquids like Araona (Amazon) pelei-2 (twins) and Samoan fa'alua (twins). PAIR words
share the P + liquid of כפל K-PH-L, couple, “COUPLE.”
Basque ball is baloi, probably too close to
French baile (ball). Round in Basque is biribil, reflecting the
Edenic bilabial-liquid mixing up of בלבול BiLBOOL
(confusion), like Swahil mpira (ball).
Cantonese
baw (wave), pronounced like BALL, suggests that BILLOW (wave) may be a
rolling, mixing term akin to BALL, rather than, as assumed, a cognate of
“bulge.” BILLOW is more likely a cognate
of FLOW, see “BILLOW.”
Going
back to the most ancient of post-Edenic languages, in Sumerian bal and bala
mean spindle, revolve, crossover and turn around. In Latvian, the
bilabials and liquids shift so that apala and par mean round, circular, over, and turn around . ב-ל
Bhet-Lamed filial associations at "FILAMENT."
Matching the antonym אבל A(V)ahL,
but, a conjunction of exclusion, not mixing, “but” in Mapuche (Chilean isolate)
is i welu. In Polish aLBo means “either … or,” and lub means “or.”
SHUFFLE shares a “dancing” meaning with BALLET,
and a “mixing” meaning (playing cards
and tiles) with BALL UP. The AHD offers
the brave etymon, “probably of Middle
Dutch or Middle Low German origin.” This
is code for “we have no clue.”
Portuguese researcher Fernando Almeida links scores of pre-Latin Iberian
words to Semitic, and traces SHUFFLE to
Phoenician bilulu (mixed).
“Phonecian” is code for Edenic.
The Global BALL Rolls On
Edenic mix up B a L a L בלל
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Akkadian
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to mix
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B a L ā l u SW
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American Spanish
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rope device to entangle
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B o L a
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Basque
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round (rolling, mixed
plane)
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B
I RiBiL
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Dutch
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boll, ball, round object
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B
o LL
e
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English
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to throw into confusion
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B
o LL
ix
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French
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a dance of mixed movement
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B
a LL
et
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German
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confused
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W i
RR
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Greek
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a lump, ball (as of clay)
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B
o L
u s
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Gujarati
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mix, mingle
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BHēLavavuṁ
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Latin (source of PILL)
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ball
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P I L a
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Ocaina/Amerind
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to mix
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Buu R o FA
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Old Babylonian
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to mix
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B a R a 2 FA
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Old English
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mixing BOWL
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B o LL a
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Old High German
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BALL
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B
a LL
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Old Norse
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rolled-up load…BULK
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B u L ki
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Phoenician
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confuse
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B i L
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Russian
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Mixed up
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Pereputali
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Samoan
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mix
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P
a L u, F i Lo
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Skiri Pawnee/Amerind
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mixed together
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W
i R iis
FA
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Spanish
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ball
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B o L a, PeLota
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Sumerian
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to mix
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B
a R a
FA
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