HARP(OON) [K]HeReBH Het-Resh-Bhet
HERR-EV____ חרב ____ [HRV à HRP]
ROOTS: A HARPOONis a thrown, sharp weapon, like a spear or javelin. More spears below. A HARPOON is not like a sickle nor is it hook-like, and it doesn't cut things off. Nonetheless, the Indo-European (IE) 'root' invented for this is serp-1 (sickle, hook), and the Latin word cited is sarpere (to cut off, prune).
Captain Ahab's HARPOON to stab Moby Dick is related to Biblical King Ahab's sword: the חרב [K]HeReBH. An Indo-European original tribe is the Great White Whale of Western scholars. The first recorded sword is the חרב K[H]eReBH of Genesis 3:24. In Ezekiel 5:1, Joshua 5:2 and Ezekiel 26:9 is it seen that חרב K[H]eReBH can mean any sharp blade, like of a razor, knife or ax. 'The sword' means war. CLEAVING the sub-roots of חרב K[H]-R + R-BH :
a lot of ( רב RahBH) kindled anger (חרה ) goes into war. קרב QRahBH is war (II Samuel 17:11). The ח-ר Het-Resh sub-root is seen at 'HOLE,' cutting words like חרש K[H]aRaSH (to plow, cut, engrave), חרץ K[H]aRaTZ, to cut, sharpen (destructive in Isaiah 10:23), and especially חרב K[H]aReyBH (destroy, slay – Jeremiah 50:27). Only shifts of liquid and bilabial away, and a good source word for a few of the swords/sharp projectiles below is חלף K[H]aLaPH, sharp, to pierce…later a slaughtering knife; חולפא K[H]OOLPAh is a knife in Syriac; nearly identical in Aramaic; Akkadian eliptu is a chisel.
Figurative 'blades,' of grass, figure in HERB below. A liquid shift away, [K]HaLaPH
BRANCHES: Since war is Arabic is harb, one might mistake Hungarian war, haboru, for a borrowing. But borrowed words are not usually recast in M132 metathesis form. Nor, sadly, did anyone have to borrow a word for war. Turkish harb, war, is from Arabic cultural dominance. Our Edenic חרב [K]HeReBH (sword… also meaning war)is thelogical ource of both the Arabic and Hungarian words.
Arabic 'war' as 'sword-time' suggests that war is a cultural norm. See 'GUERILLA' for reasons that other cultures might opt for war. To war in Edenic is לחם LoaOAK[H]eM. לחם LeK[H]eM is food. So Edenic war is for sustenance, survival, not macho recreation. The Sumerian sword is just kar; gir is a knife.
The archaic, now poetic word for 'sword' in Finnish is kalpa (S-L, S-B, from MN). The Polish saber is a karabela; the Lithuanian axe is a kirvis; the Sanskrit sword is a karaavala which became the Hindi Kr̥pāṇa कृपाण (sabre -- S-B) – all forged from the original חרב K[H]eREBH (sword). Closer to HARPOON (a weapon to be thrown), Turkish harbe is a short lance. Ruve is a harpoon and an arrow in the Amerind (Macro-Carib) language of Yagua.
The verb GORE (see
GORE) is traced to Old English
gar and Old Norse
geirr (spear), whose Edenic source is a shifted חרב
K[H]eREBH (sword). The weak end-Bhet has been lopped off. Ger is a spear in Dutch; this Germanic weapon appears in names like
GERALD and
GERTRUDE. [MF, RW] Another guttural-liquid weapon is the Ukrainian
kil (spear). See
HARROW.HARVEY is a Germanic name meaning a warrior, like French
herve. More HR and HL warlike names include HARRIOT and HILDA. The Het-Resh-Bhet in $aN
K[H]ayReeYBH, the Assyrian king SENNA
CHERIB (II Kings 18:13) means war and K[H]aRahBH (destroy – II Kings 3:23). [Al L. Ansley] To Hebrew listeners, the name means $ahN (sharp – see
TINE) + the Het-Resh-Bhet element of sword and destruction. It is no problem if the name means something else in Assyrian, just like MoSHeH (Moses) and BaBHeL (Babel) mean something else in Egyptian (son) and Babylonian (godly gate).
'Blades' or 'spears' of grass are less deadly than a חרב [K]HeREBH (sword, blade). Nonetheless, the Edenic blade named the HERB.
Albanian reverses the Edenic, as bar is their word for grass and herb.
Maltese sword, xable, might be a sabre from KHeReBH, since X is often a fricative, but might be a guttural.
.
Ben-Yehuda (B-Y) includes the
blade of a plow in defining חרב [
K]HeREBH, so the term is not confined to חרבן [
K]HooRBHaN (destruction). Latin
herba, grass, herb, had the H dropped in Italian
erba but not in French
herbe. Accompanying HERB is HERBICIDE, HERBIVOROUS, HERBAL and HERBAVORE (see
DEVOUR).
GLAIVE (sword – see Old French below) is either from A) the given Latin gladius, sword), B) from an Indo-European 'root' kel-1 (to strike, cut). (letters D and V are not together in the mouth.) or C) mild, common, anatomical shifts from Edenic חרב K[H]eRe(V), sword.
Swordsmanship became finer with the use of the RAPIER (also a foil or light sword in German). RAPIER is of 'uncertain origin,' so perhaps the liquid-bilabial weapon was forged from an earlier sword. The Arabic sword and spear are near identical; 'spear' words belong here in a HARPOON entry that often recalls the Edenic sword K[H]eReBH.
Guttural-Liquid-Bilabial throat-tongue-lip letters
| E D E N I C | חרב, sword | [K]H eReBH |
| Albanian | Sword, palm – reverse pallë, guttural fades | Ë LL aP |
| Arabic, Turkish | War, 'the sword' | Ha R B |
| Arabic | spear | Ha R Ba |
| Arawak/Achagua/Amerind | fish hook – S-L | K uL úPa [FA] |
| Celtic | spear, javelin – M132 S-G S-L javelot | Ja Lot Ve |
| Croatian | spear – M132 S-B S-L koplje | Ko Lje P |
| Cuiba/Guahibo/Amerind | spear | Kué R aBo [FA] |
| Egyptian | sword – S-B | H R P |
| English | Harpoon – S-B | Ha R Poon |
| Finnish | Spear, harpoon | Ha R PPuuna |
| Finnish | sword | K a L Pa |
| French | To spear | Ha R Ponner |
| French | sword, broadsword | G La iVe |
| Hawaiian | Blade -- bilabial dropped | Ki L a |
| Hindi | Saber – S-B | K R Pāṇa |
| Hungarian | War, 'the sword'—M132 metathesis of HaBoRu | Ha Ru Bo |
| Indonesian | spear – bilabial dropped S-L S-G | Ga Lah |
| Irish (Connact, Munster and Ulster dialects) | sword (also Munster clee-ev and in Ulster clay-ev ) - S-L S-G | C L aiVe [SG] |
| Korean | Knife, sword – S-L bilabial drop | Kh aL [FA] |
| Latin | sword -- – S-B | Ha R Pe |
| Lithuanian | axe | Ki R Vis |
| Lithuanian | sword, sabre | Ka La Vijas |
| Lithuanian | spear, harpoon | Ha R Pūnas |
| Middle Korean | knife, sword – bilabikal dropped | Ká Rh [FA] |
| Nyakyusa/Bantu | hort sword, sword | U Lu Bo [FA] |
| Old English | sword—bilabial dropped | Heo Ru [FA] |
| Old French | Broadsword – S-G S-L | G L aiVe |
| Old Prussian | Sword -– S-L | Ka La Bian [FA] |
| Polish | saber | Ka R a Bela |
| Romanian | spear, harpoon – S-B | Ha R Pon |
| Samoan | sword – pelu reversed, guttural dropped | uL eP |
| Sanskrit | sword | Ka Raa Vala |
| Serbian | spear -- M132 S-B S-L of Koplje | Ko Lje P |
| Sumerian | sword – bilabial dropped | Ka R |
| Swedish | sword, smallsword; M321 reversal | Ja äR V |
| Tamil (S. India) | sword, ploughshare, scissors, sharpness -- va_l. reversed | L aV [FA] |
| Turkish | sword | Ki Lic |
| Turkish | scimitar, sword – pala reversed | A L aP |
| Yagua/Amerind | dart (small harpoon) | Ja R aPu [FA] |
Also from FA/ Fernando Aedo:
Amerindian:
rébo, front point or tip, prow (Shipibo and others)
rübegi, thorn; small, hard pointed stick (Huitoto Murui) M231
ruve, barb, dart (small harpoon) or arrow (Yagua)
juleb, arrow (Yucatecan Maya)
kulúpa-bo, fish hook (Guahibo/Guahibo)
?okbere, axe (Barí/Chibcha) M132
Dravidian:
bāḷ(u), sword (Kannada) ß
bha_la_, spear, crescent-headed arrow (Or.)
hella, spear, dart (Si.)
pagari, pagal.i, a dart, an arrow (Tu.lex.) M312
vala, point, sharp end, spearhead, sting (Kui) ß
hul, barb, sting, point, awn (B.)
karu, prong, barb, tine, spike (Ta.lex.)
Bantu:
lupanga, a machete, a sword, sabre (Mambwe: Bantu) M231 + N
rubiu, sword (Chuka: Bantu)
lufu, sword (Dawida: Bantu)
ulubo, short sword, sword (Nyakyusa: Bantu)
lipanga, spear (Yao: Bantu) M231 + N
