Post by Phil Van Riper on Jun 28, 2005 17:28:54 GMT
I'm posting this on Isaac's behalf. Isaac updated the GIRAFFE entry in the E-Word dictionary based on Mr. Sweigart's discovery. Thanks to both of 'em!!
אברהם בן אברהם / Phil Van Riper
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Dear John M. Sweigart:
The world thanks you for sticking your neck out with a
fine new addition to the GIRAFFE entry.
Let me know if you DON'T want to be acknowledged in
the book that will turn the world around (one of these
days).
Here's the new entry:
GIRAFFE GHoReF Ayin-Resh-Phey
GHO-ref
[GH-R-F]
ROOTS: French girafe and Italian giraffa is said to
be a corruption of Arabic zirafah, although the term
is meaningless is Arabic too and a G from a Z
corruption is unnatural. Perhaps zirafah is a
metathesis of [T]ZaVaR (throat, front of neck).
While the GIRAFFE is a "neck" creature, the Edenic
term for the GIRAFFE's prominent back or (S)CRUFF of
the neck is the better etymon.
CERVIX, the back of the neck, is also from Ayin-Resh-Phey.
The [O]ReF or GHoReF is in Leviticus 5:8. Here
is the perfect sound and sense for GIRAFFE, since
GHoReF means the scruff of the neck. Like SCARF,
SCRUFF is a neck word whose initial S is non-historic
– see “SCARF” and “SCRUFF”.
BRANCHES: A related Gimel-Resh term, GaRoN (throat,
neck), gives us other long-necked animals, like the
CRANE, EGRET and HERON – see “EGRAT.” Other G-R neck
words are at “GARGLE” and “GROAN.” Because of it’s
Guttural-Liquid plus Bilabial, the CRAVAT (necktie)
belongs more with GHoReF than with GaRoN. A related
Guttural-Liquid etymon is at “COLLAR.”
Bottlenecks in bottles preceded those of traffic jams.
John M. Sweigart correctly sees the long-necked
bottle, the CARAFFE, as a household ‘giraffe.’ Making
the link to Ayin-Resh-Phey (neck) and GIRAFFE (neck
creature) even closer is the fact that the French and
Italian forms of CARAFFE came from Arabic ghiraf.
אברהם בן אברהם / Phil Van Riper
___________________________________________
Dear John M. Sweigart:
The world thanks you for sticking your neck out with a
fine new addition to the GIRAFFE entry.
Let me know if you DON'T want to be acknowledged in
the book that will turn the world around (one of these
days).
Here's the new entry:
GIRAFFE GHoReF Ayin-Resh-Phey
GHO-ref
[GH-R-F]
ROOTS: French girafe and Italian giraffa is said to
be a corruption of Arabic zirafah, although the term
is meaningless is Arabic too and a G from a Z
corruption is unnatural. Perhaps zirafah is a
metathesis of [T]ZaVaR (throat, front of neck).
While the GIRAFFE is a "neck" creature, the Edenic
term for the GIRAFFE's prominent back or (S)CRUFF of
the neck is the better etymon.
CERVIX, the back of the neck, is also from Ayin-Resh-Phey.
The [O]ReF or GHoReF is in Leviticus 5:8. Here
is the perfect sound and sense for GIRAFFE, since
GHoReF means the scruff of the neck. Like SCARF,
SCRUFF is a neck word whose initial S is non-historic
– see “SCARF” and “SCRUFF”.
BRANCHES: A related Gimel-Resh term, GaRoN (throat,
neck), gives us other long-necked animals, like the
CRANE, EGRET and HERON – see “EGRAT.” Other G-R neck
words are at “GARGLE” and “GROAN.” Because of it’s
Guttural-Liquid plus Bilabial, the CRAVAT (necktie)
belongs more with GHoReF than with GaRoN. A related
Guttural-Liquid etymon is at “COLLAR.”
Bottlenecks in bottles preceded those of traffic jams.
John M. Sweigart correctly sees the long-necked
bottle, the CARAFFE, as a household ‘giraffe.’ Making
the link to Ayin-Resh-Phey (neck) and GIRAFFE (neck
creature) even closer is the fact that the French and
Italian forms of CARAFFE came from Arabic ghiraf.