SEPT(EMBER) SHaBaT Shin-Bet-Tahf
Shah-BUT שבת [SBT àSPT]
ROOTS:
The IE “root” of SEPTEMBER is septm (seven).
The unlikely M at the end of this root honors the
revered Latin seven, septem. The global data below indicates that the M is merely a Latin suffix,
and is only found in languages that borrow Latin (like Baltic). The
Sanskrit seven is sapta. It is Indo-European but
has kept שבת SHaBaT, a crypto-root for
“seven” words.
שבת SHaBaT doesn’t only mean a SABBATH festival marking the end of the workweek at seven days (Exodus
31:17).
שבת SHaBahT is a set of seven,
whether a SEPTET of days (Genesis 2:1…Exodus 16:23), a period of 7
weeks (Leviticus 23:15) or a SABBATICAL year every SEPTENNIAL (Leviticus 25:4).
Saturn, whence SATURDAY, is שבתאי SHaB’TAhY. The word is post-Bilical Hebrew, but it is
from שבת SHaBahT, and Saturn is
the seventh planet after the sun.
In
world “seven” words, only German sieben, Dutch Zeven and Latin wannabes like Latvian
and Lithuanian (below) use the Latin add-on: M. A similarly nasalized PLENTY is credited to Latin plēnus, full.
But the IE “root” is pelǝ1 (full, abundant), indicating that the Latin nasal is non-historic. See “RIFE.”
Only Arabic sbe or sab’a سبعة
uses שבע
SHeBH[A]h, the Hebrew #7.
Where could SEVEN come from? One cannot get an N from an ע Ayin or ת Tahf.
The extension SHi(V)[A]NaH שבענה (seven) is in Job
42:13.
BRANCHES: Other alleged deriatives of IE “root” septm (seven) include SEPTUAGINT and SEPTUPLE. Cognates
like SEPTET and SEPTENNIAL make an M in the IE “root” look
bogus, but a Roman disguising of the
“Old Testament” שבת SHaBahT may have been the point.
Fernando Aedo [FA] greatly enhanced the quantity thus quality of the global data.
Select Global “seven” words that keep שבת SHaBahT
or SHaBa(S):
Amharic säbat [FA]
Anfillo
(Ethiopia) šabattó
[FA]
Armenian haft (S drop) [FA] Basque
zazpi (M132, fricative ת Sahf)
Bom: Niger-Congo sààmbà [FA] Coptic
šašᵊf (M132,fricative ת
Sahf) [FA]
Corsican sette (bilabial dropped from the Latin,
as other Romance “sevens )
Danish syv (dental drop) Estonian seitse (bilabial drop)
Fillipino pito (fricative drop) Finnish seitsemän (bilabial drop)
French: Latinate sept Geez
sɛb‘atu [FA]
Georgian švidi or shvidi [FA]
German
sieben (extra N, not in 17)
Greek eptá επτά Gujurati sāta
(bilabial drop)
Hindi/ Urdu sāt (bilabial drop) Hittite
šipta (SHiPTa)
[FA]
Iranian efdā́ (fricative drop)
[FA] Irish seacht [FA]
Javanese pito (fricative drop) Kafa (Ethiopia) sabā́ta [FA]
Latin septem (em is a suffix) Latvian septiņi (using the Latin suffix)
Lithuanian: Baltic
septyni Malagasy fito (fricative drop)
Maltese seba (dental drop) Moabite
š-b-‘-t [FA]
Nandi: Nilo-Saharan tisap M312 Nepali saat (bilabial drop)
Norwegian syv (dental drop) Panjabi
satt (bilabial drop)
Phoenician š-b- (pronounced SH-B) [FA]
Portuguese sete (bilabial drop) Proto-Brythonic seht (bilabial drop) [FA]
Proto-Indo-Iranian *sapta [FA] Romanian
șapte
Romany (Gypsy) satta (bilabial drop) [FA]
Samoan fitu (fricative drop)
Sanskrit सप्त sapta
Sesotho sopa (dental drop Shakacho (Omotic) šabá·tto [FA]
Somali todòba (T< SH /ש M132)
Songo: Bantu sambo-ate (nasalized) [FA]
Spanish siete (bilabial dropped from the Latin, as other Romance “sevens”)
Swahili saba (dental drop) Tagalog pito (fricative drop)
Tigrinya: Ethiopic šob’attɛ [FA] Tocharian
A ṣpät [FA]
Ugaritic s-b-’-t [FA] Unified
Cornish seyth (bilabial drop) [FA]
Vietnamese số bảy (dental drop) Welsh
saith (bilabial drop)
Most of these languages will have similar “seven”
forms like the French: septante, seventy; septembre, 7th month; septennat, 7-year
term; septieme, 7th
More at “SABBATICAL” and “SEVEN.”