English corresponding to Hebrew

What do you think latin is based on?

Which came first, Hebrew or Latin? They took everything, even our words.

There’s an interesting dictionary on this topic: The Word – The Dictionary that Reveals the Hebrew Roots of the English Language – by Isaac Mozeson. For example, Mr. Mozeson gives the root of magazine, the French word for store and used in English as storage of bullets in a gun, as the Hebrew “machsan.”

And the Latin word suffixus comes from…

And the Latin word suffixus comes from…

Suf in Latin is a variation of sub, it is changed to suf when followed by another f.

Originally everyone spoke Loshon Kodesh. Then came the Tower of Babel, and Hashem split the world into 70 spoken languages, instead of the just one Loshon Kodesh.

A little off topic here, but an interesting observation about yiddish-english:

Often when you have ch in yiddish, you have a similar gh in english.

Example:Nacht=night, knecht=knight, licht=light, tracht=thought, lach=laugh, shecht=slaughter, tuchter=daughter, chap=caught durch=through

Maybe because they couldn’t pronounce the ch they made it a silent gh (or they went with the sefardic shittah that ch sounds like h :))

It is quite obvious that these English words are a derivative of Yiddish or German because there is no real purpose for a silent gh.

Also interesting is calb= calf, halb=half, drai=three, trai=try shvim=swim, zing=sing margin=morning enfer=answer and the list goes on.

The word is “copacetic” and it derives from the Hebrew expression “hakol b’seder,” the response of an Israeli fighter (so I heard) to an American query to him as to how the situation was going.

The origin of copacetic may be hakol b’seder but I don’t think Israel had fighters during World War I.

“A little off topic here, but an interesting observation about yiddish-english”

Yiddish comes from German, German comes from latin, so does English, Franch, Spanish and Italian.

“gh” in German is pronounced like a cheis in yiddish so night = nacht and so on.

If you start comparing English and Yiddish most words will be almost the same.

nose = nooz

hand = hant

ear = oiyer

good = gut

year = yohr

brerad = broit

butter = puter

milk = milech

cheese = kayz

father = fohter

mother = muter

brother = bruder

sister = shvester

month = monat

hear = hoor

hour = oor

side = zeit

soup = zup

salt = zaltz

water = vaser

cold = kalt

hot = heis

warm = varem

arm = orem

stay = shtein

stone = shtein

go = gei

gold = guld

silver = zilber

coper = kuper

diamond = dimant

BSD: That’s because English and Yiddish are both Germanic languages.

oomis: According to my uncle, who’s a drummer and actually taught music at the college level it comes from American Jewish swing and Jazz musicians in the 20’s.

deiyezooger: Because English got it from Arabic which got it from Hebrew. If they allowed outside links I’d link to trees of the Indo-European and Semitic language families.

Pardes is a word that came into Hebrew from the greek.

ItcheSrulik: I stand corrected.

I don’t think it’s so surprising that there might be some small similarities between Hebrew and Indo-European languages. We have spent some time over the years in those countries.

Try and find some similarities between Hebrew and East Asian languages like Japanese and Chinese. That would be impressive.

Chick chock?

cholent guy- as you probably already know,

“cholent” is from the French chaud (hot) & lents (beans/lentils)

I didn’t get that you were talking to me either.

And haha.

Amen-???

I have heard, though I have not verified, that copasetic, which means “in order” (e.g., I have checked on our travel arrangements and everything is copasetic.) comes from the Hebrew “Hakol B’Seder.”

certainly many names:

Abraham, Isaac, Jacob…

A Y C,

“cholent” is from the French chaud (hot) & lents (beans/lentils).”

Guess again. “Hot lentils” in French would be “lentilles chaude.”

“alphabet- ?? ??

The Greek alphabet is very much like the ?-?

Alpha Bete Gamla Dalte Elme Vilma.

The latin alphabet is also somewhat alike.

Alef – A

Beis – B

Gimel – C

Dalet – D

Hei – E

Vov – F (keep in mind that in German a V = F)

Ziyen – ?

Chess – G (gh in German is ch like in chess)

Chess – H (like in Hannukah)

Tess – ?

Yid – I

Yid – J

Kof – K

Lamed – L

Mem – M

Nun – N

Samech – ? (maybe o is the same shape)

Eiyen – O

Pei – P

Tzadik – ?

Kuf – Q

Reish – R

Shiyen – S

Tuf – T

rabbiofberlin

hoemwoner and AYC- cholent is “chaud” (warm) and “lent” (slow) ,in other words, slow warm cooking, exsctly as a cholent. Both are french words. Nnothing to do with lentils……

[Thank you for your French lesson even though what you said is a bubbeh meiseh.]

First of all, “chaud” means “hot” not “warm.” Please exercise care when turing the faucet marked C on a French sink lest you scald yourself.

The mere fact that there are words in one language that sound like words in another is often simple coincidence. You say that the French “chaud” sounds like the first syllable of “cholent.” Actually it sounds almost exactly like the English word “show.” And “lent” is pronounced in French like the English word “lawn.” So, I think this means nothing etymologically.

Should you find yourself in a Jewish area of Paris such as the Marais and can find a place that prepares Ashkenazic food, the dish you want to ask for when you want “cholent” is called in French “cassoulet.” Nothwithstanding the fact that cassoulet is often treif, like many other dishes, it can be made kosher by using kosher meet.

goldielox, it’s funny, but this is the first time I have ever thought of that.

msseeker, there is almost nothing in your message that is right and I see not much point in spending all the space here in correcting everything other than to say you clearly never studied the French language.

As to English, by the way, please note the following from Merriam-Webster:

Origin of Nonchalant

French, from Old French, from present participle of nonchaloir to disregard, from non- + chaloir to concern, from Latin cal?re to be warm. . .

That would make you wrong in two languages.