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Edenics - Isaac Mozeson - "The WORD - The Dictionary that Reveals Hebrew Roots of English
Edenics - Do All World Languages Come from Hebrew
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The Word - The Dictionary that Reveals the Hebrew Roots of the English
Language - by Isaac Mozeson - $29.95
For details on book, see the "Edenics" web site:
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Magazine Articles by Professor Isaac Mozeson
http://www.homestead.com/edenics/articles.html
The following provides a few quick extracts from the Edenics web
site:
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Cool Examples for the Edenics Web Site::
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Has anti-semitism removed the true Hebrew roots of word
from English dictionaries?
Even in the New World, the Continental Congress nearly voted in Hebrew as
the official language of Americans, who saw themselves as the new
Israelites in a Promised Land. More impressive than the Hebrew motto of
Yale College is the title of Harvard College's first dissertation:
Hebrew Is the Mother Tongue. When Noah Webster's original dictionary
traced many English words beyond German, French, Latin and Greek to
their "Shemitic" origin, no one raised an eyebrow. Every
learned person knew that Hebrew was the Mother Tongue.
But
on the Continent, late Nineteenth Century German scholars were inventing
modern linguistics. Their racist ideas about the supremacy of Aryan
tongues created barbed wire language barriers and even hung Mother
Hebrew out on a limb of the language tree called West Semitic. There was
soon so much antipathy towards Hebrew elements of etymology, that
linguists were loath to admit that anything beyond a dozen words like
Amen, Cherub, Hallelujah and Jubilee might be influenced by the Hebrew.
Before I convince some of you skeptics that words like Skeptic (Greek),
Samurai (Japanese) and Taboo (Polynesian) are from Hebrew S[H]aKaP[H]
(observe), S[H]oMeR (guardian) and ToAIB[H]ah (dreadful sin), let me
prove to you how reluctant our dictionaries are to acknowledge simple
Hebrew name borrowings which were mildly corrupted by bible readers.
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Bible Names turn into English words:
The most
famous curse-monger in history is Balaam of Numbers 22-24. Correctly
pronounced Bil-LuM in Hebrew, this character who became synonymous
with cursing to millennia of bible readers is the unacknowledged
source of the word BLAME. BLAME meant to curse (as in,"I hurt my
blamed foot!"), yet the best the dictionaries can come up with is
Greek blasphemein (to profane).
The
Anglicized Goliath comes from Hebrew GoLioS (I Samuel 17:4), which the
Greeks rendered Kolios (just as they turned the GaMaL into a
camel).>From the Greek version of Goliath, therefore, comes
COLOSSUS, COLOSSEUM and all things COLOSSAL. Another giant oversight
in our etymologies involves Og, the giant king of Bashan (Numbers
21:33). The language historians suppose that a French writer (d. 1703)
coined the terms for the OGRE and his lovely OGRESS.
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A few animal words:
The carrion-eating BUZZARD is traced only as far back as Old French
busart, a word without apparent cognate or meaning. In Hebrew, BuZ
means a hawk and BeeZa spoils (of war). BoZeZ would mean the plunderer
or looter, while a BuZiaR is a falconer. Unlike the EAGLE (from oKHeL,
to eat or destroy), the BUZZARD is merely a scavenger who emBeZZles
WaSte or BooTy. (These BZ, BT and W-ST words are related to our
Bet-Zayin family of words of plunder).
The
Kiowa plains Indians named this same bird a bosen for good reason. If
you think the GIRAFFE is a strange animal, check out its wierd (given)
etymology. French girafe and Italian giraffa is aid to be a corruption
of Arabic zirafah, although the term is meaningless is Arabic too and a
G from a Z corruption is unnatural.. Using Emetology instead of
etymology, one could suppose that zirafah is a common jumble (called
metathesis in linguistics and relat! ed to the neurological disorder
called dyslexia) of Hebrew [T]ZaVaR (neck). While Adam or any ancient
human would do well to call the GIRAFFE a "neck" creature, the
Hebrew term stresses the throat or front of the neck rather than the
GIRAFFE's prominent back or scruff of the neck. The Hebrew for this part
of the anatomy is OReF, more correctly pronounced by Sephardim as KHoReF
or GHoReF. Now we've got the perfect sound and sense for GIRAFFE, since
GHoReF means the scruff of the neck. Like SCARF, SCRUF is a neck word
whose initial S is non-historic.
Any
word with more than 3 root letters in Hebrew or any language is carrying
extra baggage around the root or roots. These CRF neck words come from
Biblical Hebrew KHoReF (neck) just like the CRAVat (necktie). A related
Gimel-Resh term, GaRoN (throat, neck) gives us other long-necked
animals, like the CRANE, EGRET and HERON, along with neckwear like the
GORGEOUS GORGET, the throaty GROAN of a CROONer and the GARGLING of a
GOURMET GARGOYLE.
Returning
to animals and addressing the interchangeable C/G/H/K sounds above, both
the Hebrew Ayin and the Gimel are gutturals that can harden to make the
hard C of Latin corvus (raven) and French corbeau (raven) or soften to
make the soft H of Anglo-Saxon hraefn (raven). Do these disparate
Indo-European cousins meet when linked to a common Semitic ancestor?
The Hebrew raven is an OReV or KHoReBH (Ayin-Resh-Bet). Etymologists
don't have to dig far to get true word origins, but they refuse to
consider Hebrew. The prolific digger among American rodents (and net
surfers) is the GOPHER. The given guess in our dictionaries is an
attribution to French gaufre (a honeycomb or waffle). Those
who dig for a true source will consider Hebrew KHoPHeR (digger).
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