![]() ![]() Had trade route interactions with Afro-Asiatic cultures for thousands of years Barring very strong evidence to the contrary, any similarity between a Hebrew word and a Germanic word must therefore be ascribed to coincidence. If there is any relation, it is shrouded in the mists of remote prehistory (although some people hypothesise a prehistoric relation). The first written alphabet was Phoenician (Afro-Asiatic), and it was used as a model for the development of the Indo-European alphabets.īut we don't know of any relation between these two language families: they seemed entirely unrelated even in our earliest sources. Afro-Asiatic cultures had trade routes throughout the Middle East, Orient, and Asia and Indo-European cultures had both migratory and trade routes throughout the Orient, the Middle East and Europe both groups shared these routes for thousands of years. Hebrew is an Afro-Asiatic language, whereas Proto-Germanic is an Indo-European language.īoth superethnic and cultural groups (Afro-Asiatics and Indo-Europeans) were connected through the history of trade, migrations, and the written alphabet. It is quite clear from the context that גדא דהר means just that god of the mountain!ĭoes anyone have any knowledge that would help in figuring out whether or not these words (גד and god) are actually related, as they seem to be? ![]() Was slaughtering it] for the mountain and this is where he said it wasįor the gada (referring some heavenly minister that some would serve Abbaye said, "it is not problematic, for this is when he said [he If this isn’t good enough, note the word גדא which is mentioned several times in the Talmud. I would assume that if ‘mazal’ = ‘gad’ then we could have a pretty good indication of where the word ‘god’ came from. I am befuddled by the fact that they seem to have overlooked a very clear source.Īnd Leah said, "the good 'mazal' (astrological sign / luck) has come." Were written in Hebrew, Aramaic, Greek or Latin. Used in any of the ancient Judaeo-Christian scripture manuscripts that The word God is a relatively new European invention, which was never It begins with a short summary of its conclusion, which contains the following sentence: Google came up with this link which presents a survey of various sources that attempt to decipher the origin of the word. Root * ǵhau(ə)-, which meant either ‘to call’ or ‘to invoke’. Reconstructed Proto-Indo-European form * ǵhu-tó-m was based on the The English word itself is derivedįrom the Proto-Germanic * ǥuđan. The earliest written form of the Germanic word god comes from the 6thĬentury Christian Codex Argenteus. I originally posted this a while ago on my blog, but someone recently suggested that I pose it as a question here.Ī brief Wikipedia search on the origin of the word ‘god’ reveals the following: ![]()
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