SHUT SHahT(ahM) Shin-Tahf-Mem Shut-UMM שתם _____[SH -T] ROOTS: The IE root skeud (to shoot, chase, throw) is weakly linked to SHUT, as Old English scyttan means "pushing a crossbar," and one hundredth of all acts of SHUTTING can involve bolting a door. The lexicographers are "pushing it " all right. Once again, any sloppy sound correspondance will do for true believers in a European Adam and Eve. More like definitions of SHUT is שתם SHahTahM (to close, shut out -- Lamentations 3:8). Very unlike bolting a door is the shutting of a facial orifice, like SHUT UP or שתם SH'TooM in Numbers 24:3 -- when the seer Balaam's eye is closed. Sound trumps spelling in built-in synonyms. סתם $aTahM means "stop up" in Genesis 26:15, and "to shut up, to keep secret (Harkavy) in Daniel 12:4. עצם [A]TSaM is to shut (the eye) - Isaiah 33:15. These shut-ers stress the dental-nasal part -- see STEM (shut off). SHUTTING and closure is often an act of finishing off so for שתם SHahTahM (to close, shut out) combine the ש-ת Shin-Tahf of SET with the ת-ם Tahf-Mem of completion (see TIME).. BRANCHES: Japanese shatto appears borrowed, but is does recall the SHUTTER of a camera and the SHUTTERS of house windows. Most global languages were thinking of other Edenic words for SHUTTING. See entries like CLOT, HEM, LOCK and SECURE. .For what its worth, the official cognates of SHUT include SHUTTLE, SCHUSS, SCOT, SCOUT, SHEET, SHOT and SKEET. Archived posts http://isaacmozeson.posterous.com/ , Edenics searches + web games: http://www.edenics.net/ Edenics DVDs and most recent book: THE ORIGIN OF SPEECHES. 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&feature=related |