Timeline for Is there a relationship between Arabic ka'b and Greek kybos?
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| Nov 12, 2019 at 11:52 | comment | added | vectory | @AdamBittlingmayer Oh, that's not how I understood it, because it strikes me as unlikely as well, under the assumption that it was indeed cognate to Ancient Greek, etc. I thought Kyle just said the meaning "set heel", "fulcrum of the community" preceeded "cube" for that specific shrine" and I have not really come to understand that. Instead ... I was busy with that ark story, and I'll add that barca (see above) can be neatly split into ba' and arka, if you will. Though Egy brk "small boat" (not "ship") seems generally accepted. cp G Berg "hill, mointain", verbergen "to cover, hide" | |
| Nov 12, 2019 at 7:24 | comment | added | Adam Bittlingmayer | @vectory I find no evidence that the ordinary meaning of "cube" developed as an analogy from that specific shrine, rather than the other way around. And that claim would need to explain how the cognate - with its ordinary meaning only - entered Hebrew. | |
| Nov 12, 2019 at 0:38 | comment | added | vectory | If there is any semantic link to ark, Hebr. teva "box, …", consider kov- (in Slavic languages), as well as coffin, or G Koffer (uncertain, Mongol, Tartar cognates) and so on and so forth ... then one really has to wonder. See [en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ark]. Some topics here on SE come to mind, about thalasso, about the Epic of Atra-Hasis, and, since you mentioned heel, the one about generation and knee. Not questioned yet: Achiles' Heel. | |
| Nov 12, 2019 at 0:27 | comment | added | vectory | Semi-on-topic: fools gold forms cuboid crystals under certain conditions. | |
| Nov 11, 2019 at 23:55 | comment | added | vectory | @kyle: cp aurum, Fr or "gold"! Think I'm kidding? It is a wanderword, back to Akkadian at least; Sumerian "gold" reads KU3-SIG17 instead… orange is ultimately from Dravidian? Compare Tamil nārttaṅkāy, narantam + kāy, also Telugu nāraṅgamu, Malayalam nāraṅṅa, Kannada nāraṅgi? What do they say for gold? Tamil: taṅkam, po, kū, kūḻai, urai; the others look like suvarna (like satemized ku + ar). I wont say narttankay and tankam looked related, because I'm not comfortable with that language. You go ahead tell me they are not! [en.wiktionary.org/wiki/orange], [/gold] | |
| Nov 11, 2019 at 23:34 | comment | added | vectory | @AdamBittlingmayer: what is "this"? | |
| Nov 10, 2019 at 3:37 | comment | added | Adam Bittlingmayer | I find no evidence of this, and plenty of counter-evidence (eg the Hebrew cognate). | |
| Nov 10, 2019 at 2:45 | review | Late answers | |||
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| Nov 10, 2019 at 2:30 | review | First posts | |||
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| Nov 10, 2019 at 2:26 | history | answered | kyle | CC BY-SA 4.0 |