DRUGS are now a trillions-dollar racket.
And they have always been around. But linguists don't know where DRUG
comes from.
The new entry:
DRUG DaRahK[H] Dalet-Resh-Khaf Durr-AKH____דרך __ __[DRK à DRG] ROOTS: DRUGS are of 'obscure origin.' A Germanic root is suspected.
German Druck is to squeeze or press, the same pounding down in German words for a printing press. The universal icon of a pharmacist or legal drug dealer is one who pounds herbs, etc. in a pestle.
דרך DaRahKH is to press down, tread down as an archer a bow (Lamentations 2:4) or the crushing of grapes in a wine-press (Nehemiah 13:15). BRANCHES: Germanic 'press' words echoing Dalet (D,T)-Resh-Khaf include: Danish tryk pa, Norwegian trykk and Swedish tyruck. To 'crush' is traiškyti in Lithuanian; ut in Filipino it's durugin !
PHARMACOLOGY might also involve an apothecary breaking down medicinal materials into powders that a patient can drink. PHARMACY is from Greek pharmakon, drug or potion. פרם PHaRahM is to tear apart a fabric (Leviticus 10:6), a פ-ר Pey-Resh 'fragment' word seen at FRIABLE. ------------Once again, working on German brought new Edenic links to Hebrew. New ed. of THE ORIGIN OF SPEECHES http://post.ly/1ow4T lightcatcherbooks amazon.com Archived posts, Edenics searches + web games: http://www.edenics.net/ Edenics DVDs. Edenic (Biblical Hebrew) as the original, pre-Babel human language program see our many resources at http://www.edenics.org/ incl. videos in English, Spn., Fr. or Ger. youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch? v=glWG3coAtEg
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