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#5
Origins of Appetite, Pizzazz and Ball
It's just like Jewish
words to come from huge, close-knit families. But these words are
not truly Jewish or even Hebrew. You see how basic and universal
these words really are -- which is why I prefer to call them
Edenic. Let's see how the families of Edenic/or Ancient Hebrew
words work within themselves as well as within "foreign"
languages like English. My first example is rather simple: I call
it "The Appetite Family." To get at the root of
APPETITE, we need only jump hungrily from Latin petere (to go
forward, seek) and the theoretical Indo-European root *pet (to
rush, fly) . I think you'll all agree that the Hebrew HeFeTZ (to
desire, object of desire) is a far better etymon than the Latin
and IE (Indo-European) for APPETITE and its PT cognates like
COMPETE, IMPETUS and PETITION.
Talk about competition,
Israel is called a land of HeFeTZ (desired; that will be competed
for). The "rush, fly" sense from the invented root is
right, as words of desire should be linked to words of rushing
after our desires. Just as RoTZeH (will, desire) leads us to RaTZ
(run; source of ROTATE) and even to ReTZaKH (murder; that which
makes us run with mad, superhuman will), so is HeFeTZ (desire)
linked to HePaZoN (haste) and even to KaFaTZ (jump) and PeZaZ
(dance or jump around with PIZZAZZ). If we leave our Pey-Zayin
root we will find relevant second cousins like KHePaS (search)
and PeSaKH (skip), but let's be conservative iconoclasts here. As
logical as these versatile, universal two-letter roots are, their
existence has been vehemently denied since the Middle Ages.
The
oldest etymological text in the world, one never debunked and the
basis of this column, is found in Genesis 11. There it is stated
that the word's languages were not created wholesale but were
BALLED UP or mixed up versions of a single, original one
(Biblical Hebrew). The key words used by the text are BaLaH,
Bet-Lamed-Hay, BLH, (confuse) and BaLaL, Bet-Lamed-Lamed,
BLL,(confound) and even the locale of Bavel (Babelonia) is linked
to the BiLBuL (confusion) that went on in the Valley of Shinar.
BalooL is a word for mixture we encounter in Leviticus, so the BL
two-letter root of the BALL FAMILY is well established. Despite
this, even the word BABBLE (confused speech) is not linked to
BABEL by the Oxford English Dictionary. They would prefer we be
confused with nice, white, Indo-European etymons like
Sanskrit balbuthah (stammerer). The readers of this column are
more informed and less prejudiced than the writers of the O.E.D.,
so they can see the relationship to our hundred BL[L] terms like
BALL, BALLET, BALLOON, BALLOT, BOWL or BULLET whether they link
it to etymons above or to BooL (formless lump, later stamp in
both Hebrew and Akkadian).
Longtime readers of this
column will know that it doesn't matter whether a given source is
French baler or Greek ballzein , the ultimate source will be our
BL root, or one of her cousins like '[he]PeeL PooR" ("threw
the lots" --Esther 3:7) which allow us to include words
like: eVoLve, LuBricate, PeLLot, PeLota (ball in Spanish), PiLL,
, PouR or even VoLVo. If it rolls or can be LoBBed, or sits there
like a LiP, it's likely related to the Bet-Lamed BALL FAMILY.
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