CATA(COMB) QaDaH Koof-Dalet-Hey
Tah-KHATתחת [KT[
ROOTS: CATACOMB , underground cemetery or passageway, is from Greek kata, down, under. There is a fictional “Indo-European root” kat (down). The historic root goes deeper than Hittite kata (under).
“Down, under, below” in Edenic (Pre-Hebrew) is תחת Ta
K[H]aT (Genesis 1:7). See
DACHSHUND and
SOUTH. One may choose between reversing the first, T-K syllable, or using the second, K-T, syllable.
An Edenic word with K-D sound and sense is קדד
QaDahD to bow
down (Genesis 23:7). See
DUCK. Latin
cadere (to fall) is relevant, see the
CADENCE entry.
A third Edenic EMeTology involves the feline CAT. An official cognate of CATACOMB is Latin
catulus, a young dog or other young (small) animal. The common housecat is a small or
undersized larger cat. The domestic cat is
below the size of even a lynx. “Under” and “below” appear to have taken on quantitative meanings, unrelated to “beneath.” And, soon, our little leopard was simply known as a CAT. CAT has no known origin. Small and young in Edenic is קטן
QaTaN – see
KITTEN.
BRANCHES: The CATA- words include: CATABOLIC, CATACLYSM, CATALOGUE, CATALYST, CATAPULT, CATARACT, CATATROPHE, CATHODE and CATHOLIC. At CATHOLIC the dictionary reveals a second meaning for Greek
kata- : completely. This recalls אחת AK[H]aT (one, as in all one and the same), and the third official meaning of תחת Ta
K[H]aT in
Ben-Yehuda: “in place of, instead of, in return for.” This is the correct, financially compensatory meaning of the phrase mistranslated an “eye
for an eye” by scholars raised on prejudice.
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