English Word
COURT
Edenic Word
QaRTAh
Hebrew Word
קרתא
Transliteration
Koof-Resh-Tahf-Aleph
Pronounciation
CART-ah
Conversion
[K-R-T]
Roots
Latin cohors and cohortis mean
an enclosed place; the first definition of COURT is an uncovered space
surrounded by walls or buildings. Keeping in mind that cities were walled, with
קרות QiROAT
or walls, note Aramaic קרתא QaRTAh
(city) and קרת QeReT ("city" in Proverbs8:3). COURT as royal palace is closer in meaning, however, to
terms like קריה QiRYaH (town,
center). The phrase "city of the great king" , קרית QiRYaT in Psalms48:3, is in the context of a "palace."
The law or basketball COURT refers to the walls which set
off the court. יר ק QeeYR is a wall (Leviticus14:37)
. In antiquity the wall often made the city; the crowded gate of the city wall
was the traditional site of legal procedures.
The word that specifically means court, and a royal court in
Esther1:5 is חצר K[H]aTSaiR.
A metathesis of KH-TS-R to KH-R-T(S) will sound-much like COURT.
The given Indo-European “root” of COURT is gher (to grasp,
enclose); this resembles חגור K[ H]aGoaR
(gird) – see GIRDLE and INCARCERATE.
Branches
CHORUS, COHORT, and
CURTAIN, HORTICULTURE and ORCHARD are from the Indo-European “root” gher (to
enclose – see GIRDLE).
Words like
COURTEOUS and COURTLY are associated with COURT, but they may derive from a
different Hebrew etymon – see COURT for the physical enclosure or see
CURTSY at DEMOCRAT for the conventions of power.
KaRTAh or
KaRTHAh was a town in the tribal province of Zebulun; CARTHAGE echoes this
urban place name.
The more
common word for city is GHeeYR, also guttural-liquid. In Spanish, cerca is a
fence, cercar means to surround, and cerco is a siege.
The IE
“root” career (enclosure) ought to link up with COURT – see INCARCERATE.
Related Words
URBAN
