Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Cohen, Izzy" <Izzy_Cohen AT bmc.com>]

"watts-westmaas" <watts-westmaas AT zonnet.nl> wrote:
> ... does the word SHeD (shin,dalet) come from SHooD 
> (shin,yud,dalet), meaning: To Swell Up?

ben.crick AT argonet.co.uk (Ben Crick) wrote:
> $eD means an idol; Deuteronomy 32:17; Psalm 106:37; LXX DAIMONIA.
> $aD means a mammary gland or teat of an animal or a woman; hence 
> possibly a goddess. Hence possibly a swelling?
> $uWD or $aDaD means to lay waste (Psalm 91:6).

I think that shin-dalet SHaD/SHoD = female breast 
is the older spelling with the newer sound ... and 
that dalet-dalet DaD = teat, nipple, breast is the 
newer spelling with the older sound.

That is, after the sound of the shin changed from 
a dental D/T to SH, this word was respelled (or
borrowed back with a newer spelling) so that it 
continued to have nearly its original sound. I 
call this the "Old Whine in a New Bottle" phenomena.

The older sound DaD is probably cognate with teat,
tit, titer, and titrate (drop by drop). Measuring 
liquids drop by drop was probably first used to 
measure the milk production of dairy cows (if not 
humans). Archimedes (287? - 212 B.C.E.) used it 
to measure the quantity of water displaced by a 
(possibly pure) gold crown.

>From a cognitive linguistics viewpoint, one 
would expect the term for (human) breast to
exist before a term for the concept of 
"swelling".

BTW, the geographic area called [T]Chad in 
north Africa probably represents the breast 
[of Aphrodite]. Her heart is north of Chad in
LiBya (compare LeB). North of Libya is her 
backbone at the Gulf of Sidra (compare 
Talmudic Hebrew SHiDRaH = spine, backbone).

Libya (LeB) may have been loan-translated into 
Latin as Cyrenaica. Compare Latin cor = heart.

Send me an email off-list if you want a chart 
the describes the remainder of Aphrodite's 
body-part map.

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Regarding shin-dalet words for irrigation:

shadoof (shä duef')  n. 
a device used in the Near East for raising water, 
esp. for irrigation, consisting of a long suspended 
rod with a bucket at one end and a weight at the 
other. [1830-40; < Egyptian Ar shaduf]

dosh kham,
Israel Cohen
izzy_cohen AT bmc.com