GRAP(PLE) EGRoaF Aleph-Gimel-Resh-Phey
(EH)-GROP(HE) אגרף [G-R-P(H)]
ROOTS: GRAPPLE is a hand grip or the verb of
wrestling, GRAPPLING. Old French grape is a hook or bunch of grapes;
from an unknown “hook” word that the AHD assumes is Germanic.
Similarly, אגרף EGRoaPH is a fist or to fist fight (Exodus
21:18). אגרף EeGRaiPH is to clench a fist. One can GRASP or get a GRIP when clenching or GROUPING the fingers into a fist. (See the
German GRIP below.) The given etymology
posits that GRAPPLE is from Old French grape
(a hook), from the IE “root” ger
(curving, crooked). This IE “root” should link to קער Qee’[E]R (to curve, see
"CURVE"). The tightly joined fingers of a hook-like fist echo קרב QeyReyBH (consolidated, joined togerther -- Ezekiel 37:17)
Memo to historical linguists: “Get a grip.”
BRANCHES:
AGRAFFE, CRA(M)P, CROP (originally a
cluster) and GROUP, from the words credited to IE ger, belong here in that a fist is a group of connected
fingers and because a clenched hand resembles a GRAPLIN(E), GRAPNEL or
GRAPPLING HOOK ready to grab hold.
The AHD’s theory that GROUP is from a root
meaning “curving, crooked” is weak, but they are probably right that GROUP is a
cognate of GRIP and GRAB. The GROUP that humans know like the back of
their hand is our set of fingers in the אגרף EGRoaPH
(fist).
Some
“GROUP” words include: Albanian grup
and grumbull (cluster,
bunch), Bosnian GRuPisati (to cluster), Estonian grupp, French grappe
(cluster), German and Danish Gruppe, Italian grappolo and perhaps
Korean geulub 그룹.
See the similar CLUTCH/CLUSTER pairing at
“CLOT.”
GRAB, GRA(S)P, or GRIP are GRB or GRP terms that all involve the closed hand. Old English gripa (handful) is from the IE “root” ghreib (to grip). This root contains
GRIP, GRIPE, GRIPPE and GROPE. GRAB and GRASP are found at the IE “root” ghrehh (to seize, reach).
To GRASP can mean to understand. This is why grasp
as“understand” is begreifen in German, and
Dutch
(greb, grab and grasp) is also to take firm hold in the hand or
in the mind. Dutch begrijpen is “understand” from
our hand word, while Italian “understand” (capire) is from the
Edenic palm of the hand – כף KahPH – see “CUFF.” KAPISCE?
If CLAMP, CLIP and CLUMP do not belong at
"CONGLOMERATE," then they might fit in with the tight GROUP here -
change CLP
to GRP.
French griffe
(claw) is a grasping, closed hand or אגרף EGRoaPH (fist).
German greifen is to grasp, while Griff
is a grip, handle or grasp. Drop the
end B, F or P and it is easier to see Greek kheir (hand) as another
derivative of Gimel-Resh-Pey, with the guttural hardened and the end-bilabial dropped. This would allow us to include a dozen
CHIRO- words like CHIROPRACTOR, SURGERY and SURGEON.
Basque “fist” is ukabila M132
S-L. Dutch grijpen
and Serbian zgrabi is GRAB (more
Slavic below).
Russian GRaBit' (rob, pinch), since to pinch can mean to
steal, is another derivative of אגרוף EGROAPH, fist. ROBBING often involves
snatching and GRABBING. ROB is now traced to Old French rober, “of Germanic
origin -- see [IE “root”] reup. (AHD) We can now consider linking ROB to אגרוף EGROAPH as well as to טרף DTeRePH (rapine, ripping off -- see “TROPHY.”
The Albanian grabit means
to “fleece, rob, rip off, loot, despoil or to raven.” This suggests that GRABBING illegally,
and other like-sounding words of RAPINE, might link to the aggressive, ravenous raven,
the ערב GHoaRaiBH. See “RAVEN.”
Latin CARPE
DIEM means seize the day.
Elsewhere, dictionaries define the Latin verb carpere as
plucking. Either way, a metathesis of our
ג-פ-ר Gimel-Resh-Pey etymon (to GRP, then shifted to KRP) is easier to
grasp than the given IE “root” ger-2 (curving, crooked – see
“CURVE”). Spanish grapa is a
clamp.
In Chinese the words for "fist,"
"group," and "grip" are similar-- reinforcing connections made above.
Diners GRAB or GRIP their food with a
fork, a garfo in Portuguese. After a #2 - #3 root letter metathesis or
swap, and a liquid shift (R to L) one can see how the
German gabel, Yiddish gopel, and Danish-Norwegian-Swedish gaffel
are also culinary GRAPPLING hooks.
German zugreifen is to grasp or grab
at. In Scots-Gaelic GRIP is gruip,
but “grasp, hold” is preach
(M321). [SG]
With more patience and use of Babel-babble,
one can see how Slavic forks, like the Russian vilka, are also guttural-liquid-bilabials that are set on the same table. Or, vilka
might just be a bilabial and liquid-shifted form of FORK, see “FORK.” Either way, the logic and science of Edenics
is well served with an aural and semantic link between GRABBING with fingers (Gimel-Resh-Phey) and a splayed Pey-Resh-Koof hand-tool.
IF CRAMP is here, certainly the GRABBING CRAMP and CLAMP are related. See “CRAMP.”
The prominent feature of a GRIFFIN (a
fabulous eagle-lion, like the sphinx) are its GRIPPING talons or claws. GRIFFON
is traced to Greek grūps.
אגרוף EGROAPH, fist, in SLAVIC:
GRaBež (grapple) -- Slovene S-B
GRaBić (to grab); GRaBież (a grab) -- Polish S-B
GRaBit'
(rob, pinch… as in snatching or
grabbing) -- Russian грабить S-B
GRaBiti,
dogRaBiti, ugRaBiti, zGRaBiti (to grab, snatch) -- Bosnian, Croatian S-B
GRaBen (snatch) -- Macedonian
GRaĭFer (a grapple); GRejFer (to grapple) --
Bosnian
GRejFer (grapple
) -- Serbian
GRouPa (group … as in
clenched fingers) -- Bulgarian
GRuPisati (to cluster) --
Bosnian
HRuPa (group… as in
clenched fingers) -- Belorusian S-G
sGRaBchvam ( to grab, grasp) -- Belarusian S-B
uGRaBiti (seize, grab) -- Croatian
zaGRaBiti (grab) -- Slovene S-B
See “CRAMP” and “GRAPE”