Árbók Háskóla Íslands - 02.01.1954, Side 24

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hn-q “to strangle (oneself)”
yn-h “to oppress, vex”
sn-h “a bush, thom-bush”
sn-n1 “to be sharp(?)”
sn-n “to sharpen”
Roots designating curved, round, swollen etc.:
gn-n “to cover, surround”
hn-h “to decline (of the day), bend down”
hn-kh “palate”
tn-a’ “basket”
kn-n1 Arab. “to protect, conceal, keep from sight”
kn-s “to collect, assemble”
kn-° “to bow down”
kn-ph “1) wing of a bird, 2) extreme part, corner”
cn-q “a necklace, neckchain or collar”
pn-h “to turn, turn oneself”
pn-n1 “corner, cornerstone”
sn-n3 “a shield”
sn-° “to be bowed down”
sn-ph “to wind or wrap round”
sn-s “to gird up (the loins)”
We will see from this survey that a considerable number
of the Hebrew roost with n are in accordance with correspon-
ding roots in IE., especially emotional sounds, nature sounds
and roots which designate “curved, round, swollen” etc., where-
as the Hebrew roots which probably originally designate “to
strike, press, smash, push, thrust” are very few and even
doubtful, and therefore we will leave them out until we have
examined other “unrelated” languages. In Hebrew the roots
with initial n number 154 and of these we only adduce 16,
which all belong to the emotional sounds or the nature sounds.
Other roots in Hebrew, where the second consonant is n,
number about 84. I have previously in my two books (“Origin
of Language” and “Gestural Origin of Language”) shown that
the 3rd consonant in Hebrew is a latter addition, as a vast
mass of IE. roots may be compared with the two first conso-
nants in the Hebrew roots.
We are therefore able to compare: