Overcome by excitement
venicebard said:
[I will continue my pursuit quietly for now and post its findings only once I have something more substantial to say.]
Even at this early stage, I have to say I've found something substantial, and I pose it here in order to reinforce the added bardic dimension I claim would explain the Jewish lexicon's purpose.
I long ago was disappointed to find that the sign of the negative in Semitic was not the N it is in Indo-European, but rather L-lamedh. But now, having gone through just a third of the N words so far in my Hebrew-Chaldee lexicon, I am heartened beyond measure to find that
most of the roots have to do either with the
act of negation or with negative things suggested by its trump (XIII), as well as
NBO 'to gush out, bubble out', which is what N's negativity does relative to its alef-bet trump XIII or learning.
NAO 'deride, despise, contemn, reject',
NBA 'wither, fade, fall off', whence 'lightly esteem, despise, contemn',
NBL 'wicked, impious, ungodly' and with
H on the end 'corpse, carcase (of man & animals)',
NGCh 'push, butt (w/ horns)' yields
NBChOM 'to engage in conflict with',
Arab.
NGL 'to cut, wound' yields
MGL 'sickle' (Je. 50.16 , Joel 4.13),
NGO yields 'to smite (as God does w/ disease & calamities)',
NGP 'strike, push, stumble against' and 'infliction of disease,
plague (as a divine judgment),
NGSh 'impel, exact, oppress',
NDD includes 'flee',
NDCh 'impel' but also 'expel',
NDN 'sheath' ('negates' sword),
NDF 'scatter, rout',
NDR 'vow' but Arab. 'to cut off',
NHG 'to take away',
(
NHH 'wail, lament'),
NHM 'grumble, growl, groan, moan',
NVA 'refuse, decline; hinder, restrain, prohibit; dissuade, discourage; frustrate',
(
NVB 'put forth shoots', and
NVN 'sprout, propagate', conforming to N's also meaning 'newness' in Indo-European),
NVD 'be shaken, driven about (as a fugitive)' and 'remove, depart, flee',
NVL 'to dirty, soil',
NVS 'flee, ride swiftly' (N is Odin's steed, the ash),
NVSh 'to be sick',
a n d
NZR 'separate, withdraw, restrict oneself from, abstain from'.
So far, so good. Also, after being somewhat disappointed at the D words in my modern Hebrew dictionary, I found the Hebrew-Chaldee lexicon (based on ancient usage primarily) yielded a complete
treasure trove of words invoking D-oak-door-compass-sacrifice-XII LePendu, consisting once again of
most of the roots.
DBCh 'to sacrifice' and (m.) 'a sacrifice',
DBSh 'honey' (summer solstice being bardically associated with bees),
DD 'breast' -- only in dual, 'breasts' (cancer's physiological assignment),
DVN, the oak-king's prerogatives 'to rule, govern, judge, pead, defend, punish, contend, strive' (in the tribe's defense),
DVQ Chaldean and Syrian 'to look round, look out' (D is the horizon without, the horizon before), and Arab. conj. 'to surround',
DVR "in the deriv., according to the Arab.,
to move in a circle, go round,"
DKR 'remember' (in the sense of eminence, the hero-tales oak symbolizes being for this purpose),
DLL 'to draw (as water from well)': "In the deriv. also
to hang down, and related
DL 'low, weak, poor', which
explains the formerly puzzling (to me) meaning 'poverty' attached to
DLTh (and to the letter dalet in the
Zohar), and whence also
DLP no doubt, 'to drop, drip' and 'shed tears, weep' (for tragic hero, the oak),
and since I'm outta time, a couple examples of D being the direction straight ahead (outer horizon):
DChH 'push, thrust, drive',
DChP 'impel, urge, hasten',
DOK 'go out',
DQR 'thrust through, pierce',
and so on.