King
[ by Charles Cameron — my bilingual six-letter DoubleQuote for the day ]
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in the upper panel, in Hebrew, the word MeLeK. I’ve put the three consonants in capitals down here, and the vowels in lower case, but it’s a three letter word as you can see above, and the letters are (from right to left) MLK.
Which is interesting.
Because in translation, it means, as does the lower panel: King.
January 22nd, 2015 at 12:57 am
Quick reminder of Hebrew grammar if I remember correctly:
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In “MeLeCH” the “CHaf sofit” is pronounced “CH” like the guttural “ch” in German in “machen”. If the letter starts a word or follows a “schwa nach” it will be pronounced “K”.
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Many words in Hebrew are 3 letters. It’s a matter of fact that most of the verbs have a 3-letter root.
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Can you elaborate about what you find interesting?
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I can say that what is interesting is that in Arabic, king is “MaLiK” (???), also composed of 3 letters which are once transliterated: MLK.
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So Many similarities in the roots…
January 22nd, 2015 at 1:51 am
Hi Jeremiah — thanks.
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It’s a long time since I studied Hebrew, and I was of two minds whether to include the pointing in this DoubleQuote or not. And yes, I was oriinally going to post thiswith the words “triliteral root” in the title.
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I’ll drop the Arabic MaLiK in here as a graphic, since our software doesn’t accept Arabic script:
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As to what I find interesting here — just the pleasant “as if the world had a sense of humor” concveptual rhyme between MLK’s initials and the triliteral root for “king” in the Semitic languages — of which you have a far better grasp than I!
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Thanks again..
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If we get together one of these days, I’ll maybe tell you a long, rambling story of a man who was crazily involved in trilateral roots, and used them to interpret the works of Edgar Cayce. It also involves a four-dimensional Hindu starship making its way down Queens Boulevard, Flushing — but you’d better catch me before my memory fades, I’m getting old!