English Word
WALK
Edenic Word
RaGaiL
Hebrew Word
רגל
Transliteration
Resh-Gimel-Lamed
Pronounciation
rah-GALE
Conversion
[RGL → W(R)-L-G → WLG]
Meaning
walking, touring, spying out
Roots
WALK is said to come from Anglo-Saxon wealcan
(to roll); the Indo-European base is walg; the alleged Indo-European “root” is wel (to
roll).
For the ב-ל BH-L rolling terms see בלל BaLaL (to ball up, mix up, roll together)
at BALL. Humans wiggle but do not roll when they walk, so return to
the Indo-European base walg. W words can derive from a Hebrew ר Resh – see WASH, WEAK, WET, WOMAN,
WREN and WRONG”. Now switch the #2 and #3 letters of the Indo-European base walg,
and WLG can be rearranged as WR-G-L or R-G-L.
רגל ReGeL
is a LEG (Leviticus11:42), but "legging it,"
walking, touring and spying out an area is the sense of רגל RaGaiL inJoshua6:25 and
elsewhere.
רגל ReGeL
is a REGULAR, RELIGIOUS (see REGULAR and “RELIGION”) pilgrimage festival
where much of the nation legged it to Jerusalem.
WGL or (W)RGL also recalls the WRIGGLE or WIGGLE in our
WALK. רגל הולך HoLeKH ReGel means to go by foot, or to walk.
Rather than the WL beginning of WALK, the LK second element
seems more significant. לך LaiKH means "go!" (Genesis12:1).
הלך HaLaKH (to walk) and
four variants of the לך
LK "going" root
appear inJudges4:8. It is
also possible to see WALK as combined WL “rolling” (of the Indo-European “root”) plus LK
“going” (as in the older reconstruction, the Indo-European base). The AHD makes a WELL “of
rolling water,” and WALTZ (a rolling sort of dance) cognates of WALK. WL
animals who seem to roll are the WALLABY and WALLAROO, kangaroos with native
Australian names.
Branches
דרך DaRahKH is to tread; דלג DaLaiGis to skip or jump ; דרג DaRahG
is to advance – see DEGREE. ; גלגול
GeeLGOOL is rolling, revolving. An לג LG or
liquid-guttural two-letter root emerges here, giving WALK many a Hebrew LEG to
stand on. עלה
GHaLaH is (to go, go up – see ALLEY) can be read גל GH-L, (L-G
reversed). An L → R change can also recall Latin ire (to
go). Besides the liquids and ג G in ReGeL
(leg), to get LEG, there’s the liquid-guttural in ירך YeReK[H],
meaning “thigh” (Genesis 32:33), haunch or ham (Ezekiel 24:4), shaft or shank (
Exodus 25:31) or side ( Exodus
26:27).
Latin gradi
(to step, walk) reverses דרך
DaRaKH above. Chinese ?? likai is to
leave or depart; lay hoy is the Cantonese ; Fijian lako means go; Maidu
Indian wilek and ylek mean going fast; Malay laka is to
go; Tagalog extends this to lakarin, and Japanese aruku
is to walk.
More רך RK traveling
at DIRECTION and VAGABOND.
Fernando
Aedo notes four Dravidian (S. India) dialects where
the words
for “go” or “walk” is o-r-g or k.
For an
exotic Resh-to-W shift, there’s ר-ח-ק Resh-Het-Koof (far) appearing in
Nawat (Amerind, El Salvador) as wehka See VAGABOND.
Bible Verses
Joshua 6:25 ואת־רחב הזונה ואת־בית אביה ואת־כל־אשׁר־לה החיה יהושׁע ותשׁב בקרב ישׂראל עד היום הזה כי החביאה את־המלאכים אשׁר־שׁלח יהושׁע לרגל את־יריחו׃
“But Rahab the harlot, and her father's household, and all that she had, did Joshua save alive; and she dwelt in the midst of Israel, unto this day; because she hid the messengers, whom Joshua sent to spy out Jericho.”
Strong
(7270)
Related Words
WRONG
