English Word
SCRATCH
Edenic Word
K[H]aRahTS
Hebrew Word
חרץ
Transliteration
Het-Resh-Tsadi
Pronounciation
KAY-RAID(T)
Conversion
[K-R-(D)T]
Roots
SCRATCH is "said to be from Middle
English scratten, fused with cracchen (to scratch) - from Middle
Dutch cratsen (to scratch)."the alleged Indo-European “root” is grat or
krat (to scratch).
Guttural-liquid-dental is the sound of cutting. חרט K[H]aRaDT is to
engrave, חרש K[H]aRaSH is to plow or engrave; חרת K[H]aRaT is to engrave or inscribe. קרד QaRaD is to scrape or curry and קרדם QaRDoaM
is a hatchet (Judges9:48). Closest to the SCRATCHY end
of the word SCRATCH is חרץ K[H]aRaTS (to cut into) and חריץ K[H]aReeYTS, an incision or slice (ISamuel17:18). A חריצא K[H]aReeYTSAh is the furrow or scratch made when dragging a
chair across an earthen floor (a concern for Sabbath laws in the Talmud.) In
other Semitic, חרץ K[H]aRaTS is to engrave in Phoenician; harasu
is to dig in Akkadian. Engraving is positive, but most uses of this word
connote mutilation and damage, like a SCRATCH in furniture.
A digger is one who is diligent, so this kind of digging in
II Samuel 5:24 may connect to the guttural-liquid-dental of GREED.
For the unhistoric S in SC words, see SCOOP.
Branches
GRATE, a cognate of
SCRATCH, is from גרד GeReD
(to scratch, "to scrape"- Job2:8). This
matches the Indo-European “root” grat (to scratch). If keeping the initial S of
SCRATCH, consider SaRaDT or $aRaDT (scratch – see SERRATED) K[H]aRahTS
also means to be diligent. (S)CRUTINY is linked to Indo-European “root” skreu (to
cut, cutting tool). SCRUTINY'S cognates are SCREED, SCROTUM, SHRED and SHREW. Garuk
is to scratch in Indonesian.
K[H]oQaiQ
is to inscribe; Japanese chokoku is to carve, and kaku is to
write.
See
CHARACTER and GRADE. For the bogus initial-S, see SCOOP.
Related Words
SCOOP,
SERRATED,
CHARACTER,
GRADE
