International Laughter event, First Station, Jerusalem, May 22, 2014
Laughter around the world from the global EDENICS team, which is documenting how all human words come from the prehistoric Proto-Earth language system of Pre-Hebrew.
See our videos and data at www.edenics.org and www.edenics.net Yitschak and Kinneret Mozeson
CHUCK(LE) tsah-KHAHK צחק [TS-H-KàCH-K]
CHUCKLE (to laugh softly) is thought to be from a hen's call; thus imitative.
A CHUCKLE is not quite a cackle, and hyenas have a better sense of humor than hens. CACKLE and CHUCKLE only find the gutturals of צחק TSaK[H]aQ to be funny.
צחק TSaK[H]aQ means to laugh (Genesis 17:17). It also means various kinds of darker laughter and erotic sporting. צעצע TS[A]hTSooGHah is a plaything (“ toy” in Modern Hebrew), and שעשע SHaGH’SH’GHa means played with, fondled (Isaiah 11:8, 66:12).
The designed, paradoxical, similar opposites are צעק TSaGHahQ and זעק Za’[A]ahQ (cry).
The name of Ishmael’s half brother, Isaac or יצחק YiTS[K]HaQ, is in future tense, and implies that he’ll have the last laugh.
Key: תנועות /vowels, שפתים /lip letters, /שנים tooth letters, גרון / throat letters,
לשון/tongue letters, אף /nose letters, שרקות /whistling letters. ß = reverse
Lauguages | צחק Tsadi-Het-Koof | Meaning : laugh, sport |
Bolivian Quechua | asikuy | laugh |
Chinese 笑 | xiao X= S+K | laugh |
Egyptian (Ancient) | zcj צחק (vowels unknown) | laugh |
Farsi (Iran) | shukh | funny (person) |
Finnish | kikatta ß Tsadi as dental | giggle |
Finnish | hauska M213 metathesis of צחק TSa[K]HaQ | amusing, delightful, entertaining, fun, funny, jolly |
German | gackern the Tsadi of צחק TSaK[H]ahQ dropped. | to cackle |
Hawaiian | ho'aka S drops | laugh |
Hindi (Dravidian) हंसी | hansi ß צחק TSaK[H]aQ is an H-S which is reversed and nasalized | laugh |
Hindi मज़ाक | mazāka | jest |
Hungarian | vihog | laugh |
Hungarian | kacagás, kaca ß | laughter |
Hungarian | kacagni ß | laugh |
Italian | giocare ß | play, act a part |
Japanese きげき | kigeki | comedy |
Korean | higuk. | comedy |
Latin | jocus ß | JOCULAR, JOKE |
Mahigan (Amerind) | schmeck extra nasal | to laugh |
Maori (Australia) | kata ß Tsadi as dental | joke |
Maltese | tidhaq the Tsadi/TS becoming a double-dental | laugh the Tsadi/TS becoming a double-dental |
Maya | tsek | laugh |
Mongolian хошигнол | khoshignol M213 metathesis | joke |
Somali | qosol ß | laugh |
Spanish | guasa ß | joke |
Sumerian | ka-zal ß | laugh |
Turkish | ṣaka | joke, jest, gag |
Turkish | ṣakaci | joker |
2. לעג
La’[A]hG or La’GHaG (to jest, to laugh at or 'to mock'). In
Proverbs 17:
5 the term is parallel to the verb 'rejoice.' The built-in synonym of לעג La’[A]G is the reverse, גילה GeeYLaH (rejoicing -- see our
GALA entry. לגלג LeeGLaiG = to jeer, make fun of.
Lauguages | לעג Lamed-Ayin-Gimel | Meaning : laugh at |
Afrikaans | lag | laugh |
Anglo-Saxon | hleahha M213 methesis | laugh |
Basque | algara | laughter |
Dutch | lachte | laugh |
Finnish | leikki | play, jest, humor |
German | lachen | laugh |
Greek γέλιο | gélio [LG reverses to LG] ß | laugh |
Hokan (Amer. Indian) | luag (giggle) | giggle |
Hmong (Cambodia) | luag (giggle) | giggle |
Irish | ghair L shifts liquids to R, + the RG reverses] | L shifts liquids to R, + the RG reverses] |
Italian | dileg’gio | scoff |
Turkish | gülmek [LG reverses to LG] | laugh |
Yiddish לאַכן | lachin | laugh |
3. In Slavic languages “laugh” words come from שמח SaMah[K]H (to rejoice or be glad).
Examples: Russian смех smekh is laughter; Serbian and Slovenian “laugh” is smeh.