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    Isn't Elohîms coming from the cannan word 'El' designing god,if it is,then it also gave the arabic 'Allah'.

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    Isn't Elohîms coming from the cannan word 'El' designing god,if it is,then it also gave the arabic 'Allah'.
    *smacks VW in the nape*

    Canaanite didn't lend the word El to the Arabs; arabic already had a cognate, ilah (allah being a contraction of al-ilah lit. the god). but yes, they are similar to each other in that they are of the same source.

    otherwise, this is interesting information concerning the european languages.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Ibrahim View Post
    *smacks VW in the nape*

    Canaanite didn't lend the word El to the Arabs; arabic already had a cognate, ilah (allah being a contraction of al-ilah lit. the god). but yes, they are similar to each other in that they are of the same source.

    otherwise, this is interesting information concerning the european languages.
    I know it's a semitic language but I don't see why we wouldn't be allowed to talk about it,as you talked about Melqart earlier.

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    I know it's a semitic language but I don't see why we wouldn't be allowed to talk about it,as you talked about Melqart earlier.
    that wasn't me man. I asked about something else rlated to Indoeuropean words resembling semetic ones, and a nice fellow answered with melqart as his guide:


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    Malik came from the semitic root mlk and the meaning is obviously king or lord.
    In fact the God Melqart would be the King of the City.
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    that wasn't me man. I asked about something else rlated to Indoeuropean words resembling semetic ones, and a nice fellow answered with melqart as his guide:




    ok,then i have a question that my studies did not solve,I studied the Basque language for a long time and I wanted to if the word ezker was linked to Spanish izquierda,co's it's so similar and because I didn't get the time to check.

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    ok,then i have a question that my studies did not solve,I studied the Basque language for a long time and I wanted to if the word ezker was linked to Spanish izquierda,co's it's so similar and because I didn't get the time to check.
    I found it!....on...wikipedia!(crap,i must be blind then!)they say
    "The Romance languages of Gascon, Aragonese, and Spanish display marked Basque influence, as a result of substratum, language contact, and bilingualism. A notable example is that of the Pyrenean and Iberian Romance words for "left (side)" (izquierdo, esquerdo, esquerre, quer, esquer) derived from Basque ezker[15] to avoid the ominous connotations of Latin sinister."

    How could I not've spotted this?

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    "Allah" was formed from the gemination of the "l"s in al-ilah, "the god." The semitic root would be ylh or lh.

    In Semitic languages, there is a system of roots which can be used to form new words, this has been happening for a long time. Foreign words are easily incorporated with this system. Take the root k-t-b, which conveys the idea of writing. A very small sample of the many words in Arabic that are derived from this root.

    kitab - book
    kātib - writer (m)
    kataba - to write
    kutayyib - booklet
    takātaba - to correspond
    maktab - office
    maktaba - library
    miktāb - typewriter
    maktūb - written

    And a small sample of the Hebrew words derived from the same k-t-b root.

    katab - reporter (m)
    ktib - spelling
    katub - written
    ktab - handwriting

    It is even seen in Maltese, the only Semtic language to use the Latin Alphabet as the primary alphabet

    ktieb - book
    kittieb - writer
    miktub - written

    A good EB example is the root q-d-$, meaning "holy/sacred." In Punic, "sh" becomes "s," so we have HaParasim HaQdosim (Sacred Band Cavalry). The same root is seen in Hebrew "Miqdash," as in HaBeit HaMiqdash, which literally translates as "The House [of] The Temple." Notice the pattern of adding "mi" or "ma" to the front of a root to get a building/object from an idea.

    So we have the root s-g-d, "worship, bow." By adding "ma-" to the front we get Aramaic "Masgid," "place of worship," and Arabic "Masjid," meaning "mosque," most likely derived from an Aramaic dialect, likely Nabataean. And d-r-s, the root for "learn" is seen in Arabic "madrasa," "school."
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