English Word
CARD
Edenic Word
QayRahD
Hebrew Word
קרד
Transliteration
Koof-Resh-Dalet
Pronounciation
kay-RUDD
Conversion
[ KRD]
Meaning
To smooth by scraping
Roots
To CARD is to smooth out by scraping with a
metal comb or wire brush. Late Latin caritare (to card) is pared down to
Latin carere (to comb) and the Indo-European “root” kars (to card).
Similarly, קרד QayRaD
(to scrape, curry) and גרד GaRaD (to scrape,
scratch - Job2:8) have a shorter form in גרר GaRaR (to
scrape, plane-IKings 7:9). This GRR etymon is a fine
source for CURRY. קרצף QaRTSaiF is also to curry.
Branches
To CURRY a horse's
back with a hard CURRYCOMB is so similar to CARDING cloth that it is
surprising to see CURRY missing from the listed derivatives of Indo-European kars
(to card). Included are obscure terms like CARDOON, CARMINATIVE and CHARD. Even
these plant words suggest the flat, stiff layers of papyrus that went into
making a CARD, CARTON or CHART. It is common to name a product by the act of
production, thus we add CARTOON, CARTIRIDGE, CARTOGRAM or CARTOGRAPH to words
like GRADE, CARTE-BLANCHE, and CARTEL.
GHaDaR (to
hoe) has reshuffled KRD to KDR.
See GRADE,
RAKE (K-R backwards), (S)CRATCH and more at CHARACTER.
Animal
skins were CARDED until they were suitable for use as parchment, the former
“paper.” This why words for “paper” are forms of Koof-Resh-Dalet, such as
Italian carta (like the Magna Carta), Rumanian hirtie,
Serbo-Croat. hartija, Indonesian kertas, Modern Greek charti’
and Swahili karatasi.
If one if
more inclined to think that a CARTON and CRATE are drawing in, gathering and
contracting many items into one box, there is קלט QaLaDT (to draw in, gather in,
S-L—Leviticus 22:23) and MiQLaDT (refuge) in Numbers 35:6.
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