Ahoy, another new entry in the 1000-page+
E-Word digital dictionary:
SHIP TSooPH Tsadi-Vav-Pey
TSOOF_____צוף_____[TS-P --> SHP]
ROOTS: For a word so culturally significant, the Amer. Heritage Dict. (AHD) presents us with the leaky Indo-European (IE) 'root' for SHIP: skipam (ship. 'Germanic noun of obscure origin.').
The traditional Biblical word for an ocean-going vehicle is also S, P and a nasal, ספינה $PHeeYNaH (ship, boat -- Jonah 1:15). But this is from a root of covering, while the
צ-ף Tsadi-Pey root is about swimming and the surface (see
TOP).
צף TSahPH is to float.
צוף TSOOPH is to float or swim (II Kings 6:6).
הציף HayTSeeYPH means 'he caused to swim.'
BRANCHES: SKIFF and SKIPPER as cognates, along with 'ship' words like Icelandic and Norwegian skip would indicate a guttural which is not readily available in the Edenic. The softer Dutch schip and German Schiff might derive from a throaty guttural no harder than a ה Hey.
NAVAL words, and the NAVE of a church are from a different source. Vene, a Finnish boat, reverses the
N-V of NAVE, NAVY and Latin navis (ship). The (lip-made) bilabial is different, but the same reversal is seen with the Japanese ship: 船 fune.
Perhaps these words are using the (nose-made) nasal and (lip-made) bilabial of ספינה $PHeeYNaH.
Chinese has two boat words that might also be using the fricative in ספינה $PHeeYNaH.
1. SAMPAN, a flat-bottomed Oriental boat, is from (a possibly nasalized) Chinese san-pan, which is thought to come from Spanish champan (canoe) - probably of South American Indian origin (Webster's).
2. 船舶 Chuánbó means a ship; the Xinhua dictionary limits this to chuán (but fricative-bilabial-nasal is still available, since a U often replaces a bilabial).
More boats at
CALIBER and
TUB. (as in Noah's תבה TayBHaH, trusty TUB.)
from the
CALIBER entry:
קלף QaLahPH (skin, scalp. parchment) is reversed to a bilabial-liquid-guttural at
PEEL. After a shift of bilabial and liquid it reverses to BARK,
the outer skin of a tree. Canoes were hollowed-out logs, as in Spanish barko (boat). We still EMBARK on vehicles. Old Provençal embarcar, is from em- + barca, boat or BARQUE. Closer to קלף QaLahPH, only an M132 metathesis away, are the boats of Indonesian (kapal) and Tamil (kappal).
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