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BABEL/BABYLON
intumescent, confounding diffusion
HB: balal = to overflow, mix, confound, cause confusion; bal = negative prefix - not, nothing; bal = anxiety; beliy, balah = fail, wear out, decay, consume, be spent; nothing, destruction, lacking, to be without; balaq = annihilate, lay waste; from *BL = dilation acting from centre to periphery; increase, boil over; intumescence, diffusion, inundation, swelling; distension, profusion, abundance, expansion; *BLL = lack, default, abandonment; nil - in the sense of an extension carried to excess, to nothingness;
abandonment, increase, waste…
BACK
what bends, curves, (re)turns; what is stretched and bows (out)
*BHEUQw/BHEUGw = to bow, bend, turn about; SK: bhuj = bend, stoop, turn aside; GK: pheugein = to fleel, L; fuga = flight, L: fugere, fugare = flee, put to flight, give way; AS: bugan = to bow, bend; boga = bow; bog = the arm of a tree, the shoulder of an animal; bow of a ship; GK: pechus = forearm; SK: bahus = arm; cf. *BUQ = bellow, pull, puff; SKT: bucc = to sound; L: bucca = puffed cheek; I: bocca, F: bouche = mouth, beak; HB: *B(H) = mouth, interiority, dwelling; interior action; allied to the number 2; cf. *BG = what acts within; distension, evacuation; to permit, to let be; cf. beck, beckon, beacon and big – from bog = boastful, in the sense of swelling/bulging out; ME: byght = a bend – a bight or bay of water, the bight or bend in a rope: in the sense of curved or circular; GL bucht = bay; bend = to strain a bow by fastening the band or string, to bend or string a bow; ME: bende, AS: bendan = to bend; allied to AS: bend = bond, bindan = to bind;
*BHENDH = to bind; GK: peigma = cable; Gothick: bindan = to bind; Persian: band = bond; cf. beach, bache = river, beach, sandbank or ridge by a river; ME: bache, AS: baece = valley; ME: bek = brook; and cf. beak = bill, point – W: bach = a crook, hook;
HB: shuwb = to turn back, return, retreat, withdraw; shuwd = swell up; saba = abundance, satiation, satisfaction, fullness; shaba = be complete. Seven oneself, swear, declare; shibah, sheba = seven, seven times, indefinite number;
GK: notos = the back; opiso = to the back, behind, follow; opis = from the rear, at the back of; optomi = to look upon, gaze from (the safety of) a distance
bough, bind, fugue, refuge…
BALCONY
out-jutting plank
I: balcone = out-jutting corner of a house; palco, palcone = stage, scaffold; OHG: palco, balcho = scaffold – cf. E: balk = bream, rafter, bar, ridge, partition, division of land; AS: balka = plank for a ship’s gangway; GK: plakinos = made of boards – cf. phalanx = round bar of wood, line of battle; and the sense for balk of hindering, foiling or barring the way; Icelandic: balkr = beam of wood, piece of wood laid against a door, fence;
plank, scaffold…
BANK
overflowing borderline
ME: banke = mound of earth; Icelandic: baakki = ridge, eminence, bank of a river; Teutonic: bankon = bank, bench, ridge, shelf, table; MHG: banc = bench, table; F: banque = money changer’s table;
HB: saphah = lip, edge, boundary, margin; termination; from saphah = to abrade, bare, stick out; saphah = scrape, shave; accumulate, increase, augment; gather together; saphaph = to snatch away, terminate; container, vestibule; to wait at the threshold; to be a doorkeeper; cf. saphan = to hide, cover over; to reserve, keep safe; roof; sippun = ceiling; cf. siphrah, sepher (E: cipher) = book, bill, evidence; writing, register, scroll; enumeration, number; score, inscribe, recount, narrate; declare, speak, show forth;
HB: *SPH = end, termination, achievement; extremity of a thing, where it ends; achievement, consummation; border, summit (in the sense of the highest limit), depth (in the sense of the lowest limit), threshold (in the sense of a limit between two); what is added to something for perfection - reiteration, addition, supplement; to approach, to come into neighbourhood, to touch the threshold, to receive hospitality;
HB: *SHPH = apparent, eminent, distinguished, prominent; what overflows – like the lips (hence, language); what rises – like a hill; what appears on the surface – like cream;
border, boundary, horizon, limit, threshold…
BARGE
bearing barque
GK/IT: baris = flat row-boat (Eg:*BR, Coptic: bari = boat); cf. E: bark (of a tree), F: barque, IT: barca = boat, cf. Bark; Icelandic: braka = to creak as timber does;
HB: *BA = progression, passage across regions, locomotion; *BAR = manifestation, explanation, exploration; what is brought to the light of day, what is produced externally; a fountain/well; *BR = productive power, conception, potential emanation, manifestation; ray of a circle as measuring-out a circumference from a centre; fruit, son – and cf. Abram (Abraham – father of multitudes), SK: Brahma; AS: beran = to bear, carry, vehicle (barrow); *BHER = to bear, carry; SKT: bhr = support; GK: pero, L: fero = I bear;
barrow, bairn, burden, bier, birth, bury…
BASE
low bearing pedestal
L: bassus = stout, fat (cf. E: boss = knob, hump, swelling); bassus = low; ME: bas = foundation; F: bas = low; L/GK: basis = a going, pedestal; see PASS, and *PEIS = to pound, stamp; SKT: gatis = a going; GK: ba, ban, bainein = to come, go, move towards, draw near – from the same root as E: come (cf. SKT: gam, *GwEM/QEM = to come, go, walk; and BAN = speak, declare, proclaim, shine forth[1]); cf. F: batir = to build, from L: bastire = to build (bastille, bastion – I: bastia = building, fort, rampart, fortification; GK: bastazein = to support); and I: bassamento = abasement; F: soubassement = under-basement; cf. GK: basilikos, L: basilicus = royal; basileus = king; cf. E: basilica, from L: basilica = large hall, palace of the king; GK: basilike = public building with colonnades, church
HB: mechonah, machown = pedestal, fixture, place, abode, foundation, habitation, settlement; from chuwn = to be erect, set up, established; to be prepared, rendered sure, prosperous; faithful, correct, firm;
HB: *CHN = what acquires solidity, the base on which things rest; substance, being; corporeal stability and solidity, consistence, fixity; to dispose, base, affirm, confirm, render apt (for), produce, designate by a name; what exists or passes into act;
ban, build, basilica…
BATH
interior fomenting receptacle
ME: both, baeth; OHG: bad, pad - from bakan, bahan = to warm; G: bahen = to foment; cf. bathos = depth; and *BHEU = dwell, be, become; SKT: bhu, AS: beon = to be; SKT: bhavan, AS: bold = house, dwelling; G: bauan = dwell; SKT: bha = to shine; and motifs of declaration (*BHA, *BAN), shining (*BHAL), showing, emanating or displaying clearly (*BHAN, *BHAW), and awakening or understanding (*BHEUD) - see BUILD;
HB: bath = a measure of liquids, division - from battah = to break in pieces, desolation, waste; bathar = divide, chop up; bethuwlah = separate; cf. bath = daughter - from banah = build, begin, make, obtain children; and ben = son (as builder of a family name), relationship; binyah = structure, building; and aben = stone (as material for building);
*BTH = space, interior, dwelling, receptacle; *BOUTH = dwell, lodge, live, retire - see SPACE; *BN = extension, production, emanation; formation, corporealisation, construction - a son; generative extension; production identified with a producing being; movement from power to act; *BUN = to conceive, intellectualise, conceptualise; to have ideas; to make plans (see ban = declaration, under BASE); *BIYN = intelligence (as what edifies the soul), what is interior; - *B = interior activity; *BA = progression, coming, birth + *N = produced and particular being, augmentation; *AN = circumscribing extent of a being: whence the motif of active production and manifestation of (interior) being;
HB: rahats = wash; ravah = slake a thirst, bathe, satiate, water abundantly, make drunk; rahab = broaden, width, broad place; rahab = roomy, large, wide; cf. ravah = to breathe freely, have ample room; revah = room, enlargement, space, interval, deliverance;
*RA, *REH = rays of a circle, emanations of light and fire; *ROU = water; *RH = air; *RIY = ether; *RHO = terrestrial matter; *ROUH = aerial dilation, wind, breath - soul, spirit (see RHYTHM); *RHTZ = ablution; *ROU = course of water, river; *ROUH = to water, imbibe;
space, room, rhythm…
BATTEN
beating stick
L: basto = stick, Wooden rod, scantling; GK: bastazein = to support (see BASE); cf. L: battuere = to beat; OF: batailler = fortify, embattle (ie. furnish with battlements); bastiller = to fortify, battre = to beat, battle (in the sense of thickening, swelling up, increasing in mass – through beating); cf. bat = stick/staff, baton used to beat washed clothes (as in fulling cloth); bate = strife, battle – contracted from de-bate; and bate = to abate, diminish, beat down – contracted from abate = to beat down – L: ab- = away, from + battuere = to beat; abatis = military defence made of felled trees (ie. cut down); cf. bitts = two strong posts standing on the deck of a ship to which cables are fastened; noose or tether for pasturing – or baiting – horses; Icelandic: beita = to yoke horses to a vehicle; AS: gebaete = bridle; baetan = to rein in; baeting = rope for fastening; bitan = to bite; *BEIDH/BEIT = to cleave, break, divide (chiefly with the teeth), bite; AS: bitan = bite, bait; cf. bitter = sharp, biting;
bait, base, battle, beat, bit, bite…
BAY
yawning gape
ME: baye, F: baie = an inlet of the sea; cf. bailler = to yawn; MF: bayer, L: badare = to gape; AF: baee = a gap or opening in a wall (the space between columns, the divisions of space in a barn); cf. aboyer = to bark or bay at, yelp; to keep at bay (ie. to keep away by barking at);
back, gap, gape…
BEAD
bidding abutment
A perforated ball used for counting prayers; AS: baed = a prayer; G: bitte = bid, request, entreaty; OHG: bittel = one who asks; AS: biddan = prayer, bid; beodan = to command; *BEUDH = to awaken, understand, serve, await, be awake to; *BEIDH = trust, abide, persuade; ME: butten = to push, strike, beat; a rising ground or knoll; F: but = a mark, goal, end; buter = to strike; ME: but = thick end (of a spear), thick, stumpy; Icelandic: butr = a log; G: butt = stump, (thick) end;
abut, bait, beat, bid, bud, but, butt, button…
BEAM
braiding ray
S: beam, G: baum = tree; byrnende beam = burning beam, ray of light; cf. HB: *BM = elevated place; sublime, sacred, revered thing, temple, altar;
HB: ereg, arag = plait, weave, braid; weaver’s shuttle, beam; gab = to hollow, curve; the back – as rounded; top, rim, boss, vault, arch, nave, ring; well, cistern, bean, ditch; cf. guwb = to dig; cf. gebul and *GB, under BODY
HB: khaphiyc = to connect, a girder, beam; cf. khaph = hollow (hand, paw, dish, bowl); khaphah = to bend; khippah = branch; khephiyr = village – as covered by walls; khaphar = to cover; khaphaph = to curve, bow down; bend; khaphal = to fold together, duplicate, repeat; khopher = cover, village, bitumen (coating); kharath = to hew or cut (off, down), to consume, to make a covenant; *KHPH = curvature, concavity, inflection; what is able to contain and take; palm, claw, spoon;
HB: ghob = envelope, cover, darkness, density; cloud, shadow; architrave – as shading the pillars; thick beam; see *GB, under BODY
HB: tsalah = a rib – as curved; door, leaf, side, quarter; floor or ceiling timber or plank; beam, board, chamber; tsalah = to curve; *TZL = far reaching effect; shadow projected far into space; obscure depth whose extent is not known; an object extended high and casting a shadow – dais, cover, roof, veil; deep and obscure place, cave; blackness of the shadow;
HB: korah = rafter – forming trenches; roof beam; from kuwr = to trench, throw forth, wall up; build a wall; web of beams, lining a trench; *KUR = incision, dig, well, fountain, fosse, trap, abyss; cols; walled enclosure, grotto, tower, city; karah = to encounter, meet, happen or light upon, bring about; to approach, bring near, gather; cf. kereb = the nearest part, the centre; karrob = near in place, kind or time; neighbour; impose timbers for roof or floor – in the sense of bringing about a construction; to appoint, lay beams; *KR = what is incisive, penetrant, rigid, straight; what engraves; engraving, character; writing, aide memoire, history, archive; lecture, oration, speech; name, convoke, evoke;
GK: dokos = holding up, stick of timber, strut, beam, support; from dechomai = to receive, accept, approve; cf. doche = reception; cf. *DEIK = to show, point out, indicate – under TEACH;
body, bank, indicate, rafter, ray, teach…
BEAUTY
splendid, uncorrupted countenance
L: belli/bellus + tat = the condition of being fair, fine; from bonus = good, bene = well – related to bounty = liberality, generosity; OF: bonte = goodness; cf. bonder = to bound/bounce, grow, increase; to be bound, bounden (ie. prepared, ready) to go; boundary, limit, binding; and cf. Icelandic: buinn = to be prepared, ready; bua = to till, get ready – ie. to be (*BHU);
HB: hadar = magnificence, splendour – from hadar = to swell up, put forth; hadarah = decoration; hadah = to stretch forth the hand; *HED = point, summit;
HB: hamad = to delight in, pleasant, precious; hom, hamam = heat, warmth; cf. hamar = boil, ferment, rise to the surface; glow, be red; wine; *HM = heat emitted by envelopment and contraction; what is curved, warm, obscure, enveloping, attractive; solar fire; amorous passion, anger; to exert a compressive, enveloping force; to render obscure; a wall, enclosure, envelope; curved rounded form;
HB: toub = to be or do good; *TB = conservation, central integrity; healthy fructification; what forces corruption away; what keeps to a just middle; what keeps to itself, uncorrupted
HB: yaphah = to be bright, beautiful; yapheh = beautiful, fair, splendour, brightness; yapha = to shine, shine forth, expand; *IPH – sign of manifestation (*I) united to the sign of speech (*PH)
HB: mareh = view, appearance, shape, comeliness, countenance – from raah = to see, experience, regard, enjoy; marah = vision, mirror; murah = something conspicuous, prominent; *MAUR = what shines, lights, warms; *MR = what extends, invades space; to extend, arise;
HB: naah = to be at home; to be pleasant, comely; pasture, habitation, house, pleasant place; *NA = youth, childhood, newness, freshness, grace; what is newly born – as both gracious, fresh, agreeable, and tender, weak, inconstant, feeble, impotent; what is not used, tired; what has not yet achieved a state of perfection, what is not yet ripe or cooked;
HB: tzebiy = prominent, conspicuous, splendid; gazelle – as beautiful; tsab = to establish, palanquin, canopy – as prominent, as fixture; tzebaah = mass of people or things, array; *TZB = course, crowd; what is deployed along fixed rules; what follows a determined course; emanation; harmony which regulates the movements of an army or campaign, discipline, honour, glory; *TZA = what breaks with material limits; what comes, pushes, arrives outside; productive faculty;
HB: tziyr = form of beauty – as if pressed out, carved, moulded - an idol, figure, image; pressure; *TZR = form, formation, compaction, elementary configuration; *TZUR = formation by coordination and aggregation of elements through art; conformity to a model; creation; figure, fiction, image, model; to form, model, configure, paint; compression by an external force, which pushes and tightens constituent parts towards a common point; what obliges, forces, oppresses; a violent adversary, enemy, rival; what causes anguish, pain; rock escarpment; to tighten, bind, knot, pack; *TZIR = ligature, hinges fastening a door to its surrounds in the wall
HB: thoar, thaar = delineation, mark, outline; figure, appearance, form – therefore beauty of lineament, form; *THAR = description, information, design; *THA = determination, designation, definition; what limits, determines, defines, circumscribes; the (enclosed) nuptial bedroom;
HB: horaios = belonging to the right hour or season, what is timely, opportune – therefore beauteous, as flourishing - from hora = hour, day, season, instant, time; horos = season, year (see GK: hortus = garden) – from *YE/*EI = to pass, go; SKT: yatu = time; L: ire = to go; GK: eimi = I shall go; *YEU = to drive away, preserve from; SKT: yu = preserve from, keep aloof; to bind, mix; SKT: yu = fasten, join;
appearance, boundary, build, garden, form, limit, opportunity, season, surfeit, …
BECOME
to happen to come by
AS: be- = by + cuman = to come; ME: becumen = to become, to suit; AS: bicumen = to arrive, happen, turn out, befall; Gothic: bikwiman = to come upon one, befall; MHG: bekomen = happen, befall, reach; G: bequem = fit, apt, suitable, convenient; *BHEU = to exist + *GwEM/*QEM = to come, go, walk;
HB: gadal = to twist, to be large, increase; to become great, stout; gedil = tassle, fringe, wreath – as twisted; gadol = great, mighty – by inference, proud, insolent; cf. gada = to fell a tree, destroy, cut down, make desolate; Gidom = desolation; gadar = to wall in, fence up, hedge, enclose; geder = circumvallation, wall, enclosure; gadah = to cut off, furrow, incise; the border of a river – as cut into by the stream; bank; *GD = what is augmented, extends to abundance and profuse division; what acts in crowds, agitated, tumultuous; incursion, irruption, incision; *GA = aggrandisement, increase, organic development, augmentation, magnitude;
HB: hayah = to exist, come to pass, happen, accomplish; havah = to breathe, be, exist; havvah = eagerly coveting and rushing upon, desire, ruin; *HEH = Being, the one who is; a being; *HOUH = Being-becoming, life; *HIH = being-existing; *HOU = potential life, power of being, incomprehensible state of a being, which while not yet existing, has the potential to exist; *HE = universal life, breath, air, spirit, soul, animating and vivifying character; symbolic number is 5;
HB: hushah = to do, make, accomplish, become, bestow; *HUSH = conformity in the aggregation of parts, moving according to a plan, design, will; a work, composition, creation, fiction, design; to do; see *TZR, under BEAUTY
GK: ginomai = to cause to be, become, generate, come to pass, be divided, be ordained to be, seem, be wrought, make; cf. ginosko = to know, perceive, understand; see *GEN = generate, produce, know - under GARDEN
GK: eis = in, to, into, against, among – a point reached or entered in space or time; eis-eimi = to enter, go-into, exist-into; cf. heis = one, singularity, one by one, severally; eita = temporal or logical succession; ei = thou art, art, be; eimi = I exist, am, have been; einai = to exist;
arrive, accomplish, be, beauty, befall, generate, know, happen, garden, make…
BEFORE
what fronts onto the outside
ME: bifore = in front of; from be- = to make, by- = beside, near, by the means of, according to + foran = fore, in front, what is first; AS: fore = for, before, beforehand; SKT: puras, GK: paros = in front, formerly; L: foras = out of doors, stranger – see *PER, under FOR, and DOOR;
HB: phaneh = the face (as that part of the countenance which turns to face); phanah = to turn, to face, appear, look; phen = to turn; angle or corner of a wall or street; pheniymiy = interior, indoors, within, in the inner part; *PHN = the face of something, the front, what first presents itself to view – see FACE
GK: pro- = fore, before, in front of, preceding; pros = forward, toward, near to; tendency, motion or direction towards (in place, time, occasion or respect) the destination of a relation;
door, face, for, gloom, periphery, turn…
BEGIN
incipient distention
AS: be- = to make, to locate or intensify an act + ginnan = begin, commence; bigan, began = to go about; gan = to go, move about, proceed; see *GEN = generate, produce, know - under GARDEN; cf. E: commence – from L: com- = together + initiare = to begin, initium = a beginning; and beget = to obtain, seize, generate, produce;
HB: chechillah = opening, commencement, first time – from chalal = to bore, wound, dissolve, slay; to break; to begin – as if by opening (a wedge, gap); chelekah = to be dark or unhappy, wretched, unfortunate; chole = exposed, profane, unholy; chalah = to be rubbed or worn smooth or threadbare, sick or afflicted; *CHL = superior effort, causing a distension, release, lengthening; unknown force which breaks physical bonds; dissolution, release; extension, effort to extend, develop, conduct towards a goal; distortion, cotorsion, suffering; opening, wound; weakness, infirmity; to suffer, bring into existence, produce ideas, tend towards a goal; *CHIL = elementary virtuality
HB: reshiyth = the first (in place and time); from rash = to shake (the head), principal, first, chief, highest part, head; *RSH = centre of a circle; centre deploying the circumference; principial principle; *RASH = acting principle; what is primitive, original, inceptual; culminating point; the head, chief, captain; *RTZ = vibratory movement of division; what moves by shaking, rupturing, breaking apart; to stratify by layers; to break into large chunks; as shared portions – the sense of alliance, concurrence and friendship; *RISH = originary manifestation; *RI = fluid emanation, stream; fragrant exhalation; aroma, perfume; see *RA, under RADIUS;
architect, become, beget, garden, initiate, open, radius…
BEHIND
what remains to hinder and defer
ME: behinde = after, at the back of, afterwards; from AS: be- + hindan = at the back; cf. G: hinter = behind (E: hinterlands); and E: hinder = to put behind, keep back, check, resist, defer; cf. deter – from L: deterrere = to frighten from, prevent: de- = from + terrere = to frighten;
HB: achar = to loiter, remain behind, procrastinate, defer, delay, hinder, tarry; the hind part; remnant; after, hereafter; next, other, the other one – the one following; strange; later; *AHR = what is other, what follows, posterior; what comes after; what remains behind;
GK: opisthen, from opis = to regard, look - from the rear, at the back; optomai = to gaze in amazement; optasia = visuality; hustereo = to be later, inferior, to fall short, be deficient, be in need/want; husteros = behind, latter, latter; cf. hupo, L: sub = under, beneath; inferior position; what is covert; and huper, L: super = over, above, beyond; excess;
back, defer, remnant, remainder, residue, …
BEHOLD
preserve and keep
ME: beholden = to bind by obligation; see, observe, watch; AS: behealdan = hold, possess, guard; D: behouden = preserve; G: behalten = keep; AS: be- = by, beside, near, by means of + healdan = hold;
HB: raah = to see, perceive, view; *RA = geometric ray, radius extending from centre to circumference; optical ray; visibility; *RAAH = to see, fix one’s gaze on an object; to look, consider; the aspect of a thing; *RAIY = mirror; speculation; sight, spectacle; reiyth = sight, beholding;
GK: idou = lo, behold, see; from eido/eidos = to see, know, be aware of; consider, have knowledge; form appearance, shape; cf. eidolon = image, idol;
behold, guard, idea, idol, image, mirror, perceive, radius, ray, yard…
BEING
building, dwelling
AS: beon = to be; G: bin = I am; L: fore, GK: phuein, SKT: bhu = to be, to exist; see *BHEU = to exist, become, be, dwell, under BUILD; GK: on, ousa = being, be, come, have; huparcho = to begin under, to come into existence – from huper = over, above, beyond, across, for the sake of, exceeding + arche = first, principal, principle, chief; cf. *AN = to breathe; GK: anemos = wind; L: animus = spirit; *GEN = generate, produce - GK: gignomai = I am born; see *GEN under GENERATE; and *WEN = desire, yearn, strive for, seek to get, in E: won = to dwell, remain; AS: winnan = to strive after, desire (E: win); to labour, endure, wunian = to dwell, remain, continue; E: wont = used, accustomed; ME: wonen, wonien = to dwell, be used to; Icelandic: vani = usage; vandi = custom; G: gewohnen = to be used to, wohnen = to dwell, entwohnen = to wean; E: wean, AS: wenian = to accustom to;
HB: hayah = to exist, become;
become, building, dwelling, generate, horizon…
BELONG
to be in longing
AS: langian = to long for, after, crave for; D: belangen = concerning, pertaining to – hence beside or by a state of longing;
being, become, long, melancholia…
BELVEDERE
place of fair prospect
Prospect-tower; L: bellus- = fair, beautiful + uidere = to see;
beauty…
BENEATH
nether-being
AS: be- = by + neodan = below, nidera = nether, lower; from AS: ne-, SK: ni- downwards, into + *T(H)ER = to pass through, reach, bore or go through, turn – see *TER under TERM and TURN; and *DER = to support, hold, keep, retain; GK: thronos = support, sear; L: firmus = secure; cf. *DER = to tear, rive; GK: derein = to flay; AS: teran = to rend;
GK: katotero = downwards; from kata = down + teros = a watch, guard, to keep an eye on, detain, withhold; katoteros = inferior; cf. katabaino = to descend; kataballo = to throw down; katabole = foundation, conception; katabasis = declivity, descent; katalego = to lay down; katecho = to hold down, keep fast, take, withhold; from echo, scheo = to hold, count, keep, take for, use;
HB: thehth = the bottom – as depressed; below, under, in lieu of; from thowah = to depress, make humble; cf. thavah = imprint, mark out, scratch, grieve; thav = a mark, signature; *THEHTH = submission, dependence, inferiority; underneath;
HB: mattah = downward, below, beneath; mittah = bed, extended surface, sofa, bier; mutteh = stretching, distortion, spreading out; *MT = motion towards the bottom; metiyl = hammering out, forged iron bar;
below, turn…
BESIDE
to be by the other one
AS: be = by + sidan = side; cf. *SED = to sit, under SIDE; and *STHA, under STAND;
HB: bad = separated, divided; part of the body, branch of a tree; apart, beside; HB: badal = to divide; a part, piece; *BD = separation, isolation, solitude, individuality, particularised existence; opening, to open the mouth; milieu, what is between two; from *B = inner activity + `al = distinct objectness, particularity, singularity; above, over, upon, down against; *AL = elevation, force, power, extension; eccentric force, that which tends towards a goal – therefore, towards, for, by, against, on, above; cf. *AHAL = elevated dwelling, tent; and *AUL = to rise, become extended, invade, fill space or time; cf. `al = the top, aloft, the highest; `alah = to ascend, arise, be high; increase, cause to bring up/out; cf. owlah = step, stair; holocaust, burnt offering – as going up (in smoke);
HB: atzl = a joining, near, side, toward; keep, reserve; tzd = a side, adversary *ATZ = border, limit, repressive force, term, end; compression; doubling, iteration; *TZD = the side, hidden opposition, artifice, trap; *TZOUD = to trick, lay traps;
GK: choris = separated space, beside; chorizo = to place room between, separate; see chora, under SPACE;
GK: epi = superimposition, distribution; over, upon, towards;
GK: existemi = to stand outside, to be beside oneself, to be astounded, astonished;
border, boundary, divide, exist, side, sit, space, stand, tent…
BETWEEN
being in the midst of two
ME: bituene, AS: betweonan – be- = by + tweonum = two, double; in the middle of; AS: twa = two; L: bibi; G: zwischen = between, from zwei = two, OHG: zwisc = two fold, zwis = twice;
HB: beyn = among, between; a distinction, either-or, among, betwixt, within; from biyn = to separate (mentally), distinguish; to understand, perceive, mark, discern; biynah = understanding, meaning, knowledge; *BN = generative extension, emanation, manifestation from potential to act; formation, construction; *BOUN = to conceive, think, exercise ones intellectual and conceptual faculties; to have ideas, make a plan; *BIYN = intelligence; *BI = motion of something advancing, appearing or surfacing on the outside, which arrives, opens + *IYN = individualised existence, particular manifestation, singularity, specificity;
HB: hum = with, equally with, conjunction, among, between; to associate; a people, tribe, folk, nation; tendency of parts towards each other, attraction, aggregation, accumulation, conjunction; with, towards, amongst; reunion, conjunction, bond; a people, corporation; *HUMM = a great number, multitude;
HB: thouch = to sever, bisection; the midst, centre; *THCH = point of contact between parts; touch; sympathetic point; bond, what is between two; tendency of aggregation; *TH = reciprocity, sympathy + *CH = reflection, transience; mold which receives all things; similitude, analogy; hollowness, the hand – as cupped and receptive; cf. *THB = reunion, affinity;
GK: ek = out, away (from), fully; origin – from which something emerges and grows (out of); ek, en = in, at, position, instrumentality; hekas = each, every, each one severally, particularity, specificity; hekaton = a hundred (as excess of the several); ekei = there, thence; ektos = exterior, beside, out of, without; exo = outside – but also strange, odd, unfamiliar (as excluded from); ekeinos = that one (there), that specific and particular one; he, it, the other, this, those (who are there, in that place, located, present); cf. hektos = sixth – from ex, hex = 6; hexes = successive, what comes next (6 is the number of the circle – therefore of completeness: a circumference being divisible into 6 equal parts by its radius, yielding a hexagon); cf. Latin: aequus = equal, just, equity, balance, equivalence (born of completeness); cf. Greek: agein = to drive, lead, induce, carry (forth, out of); agan = much, exceedingly; Latin: actuare = to perform; from *AK, *AG = to drive, conduct; the agency of an act; Sanskrit: aj = to drive; Icelandic: aka, ok = to drive; cf. aqua = water (as that which is driven [to flow]); *AK , *AH = to be sharp, to pierce; Greek: akros = pointed; akone = whetstone; aken = edge; Latin: acuere = sharpen; AS: ecg = edge;
SKT: ek, eka = one, the same, not accompanied by anyone, firm, single of its kind, unique (en [= being, to be] + ek [= one]), chief, peerless, true; eka = in one; ekam = one; ekatuam = in oneness; ekayad = by one; ekasthana = (standing) in one place; ekena = alone.
ME: ek, echen, ecan; Anglo Saxon: iecan; Teutonic: aukjan; Swedish: oka; Latin: augere = to increase, augment; Sanscrit: ojas, ochas = strength; all from the etymological *AUG(w), *AUK = to increase; cf. *AWEG(w), *WEG(w) – Sanscrit: ugras = very strong; cf. Gothic: aukan = to eke, augment; *WEG, *WEK = to be vigorous, watchful; to wake; *WEKS = to increase; Latin: uegere = to excite, arouse; Anglo Saxon: wacan = to come to life; weaxan = to wax, increase; Sanskrit: vaksh = to grow; vac = speech (as increasing and filling space); *WEIK = to come to, to enter; Sanskrit: vic = to enter; vecas = a settler, neighbour, near-dweller; vecman = house; Greek: oikos = house, dwelling; Latin: uicus = village (cf. vicinity);
GK: merizo = to part, apportion, bestow, share; from meros, meiromai = to obtain an allotment or section; a division or share; behalf; respect; mesites = a go-between, interlocutor, intercessor, reconciliatory, mediator; from mesos = middle, between, in the midst; from meta = accompaniment, amid, among; participation, proximity, transfer;
GK: pros = forward, toward, the side of, pertaining to, nearby, by the side of; the destination of a relation; wither, for; motion towards, nearness of; from pro = fore, in front of, prior, above;
abut, bead, border, boundary, but, edge, limit, middle, midst, two, touch…
BEYOND
over and above that one, there
ME: beyonde; AS: begeondan – from be- to make, upon + geond = across – that is, what goes across, what is on the farther side of; cf. E: yon, yonder = at a distance, over there, that one; Teutonic: yainoz = beyond, SKT: yas = who, that; see *YAS, under YEAST;
HB: helah, from hel = into the distance, far away, hitherto, yonder; to remove or be remote; to cast far off; above, over, upon, against; a yolk, weight, burden; the top, the highest; cf. halah = to ascend, be high; *HEL = distention, lengthening, release, dilation; force breaking bonds by tearing apart, dissolving or releasing to excess; a suffering; solution of continuity; opening, wound; weakness, debility; to tend towards a goal, to produce ideas; *HUL = matter, substance; extensive force of matter, vegetative power, development in space; material extension, progression, indefinite expansion – towards, for, according to; a physically produced being; what increases, extends, arises; what is high – the most high, eminent, superior (ie. God)
HB: heber, habar = to cross over, transit, go across, conduct over, take away, transgress; (what is) on the other side; passage; *HU = materiality, substance; the void + *BR = productivity, emanation, creation, fruit; manifestation, explication; *HB = condensation, thickening; to become dark, obscure, sombre, opaque + *AR = productive force, what flows; prolongation, extension, release; *HUR = passion, internal ardour, irresistible impulse; blindness, lack of light or intelligence, desert – simultaneously a state of the highest passion and most complete privation; cf. E: hubris;
GK: peran, peiro = to pierce, go through, across, to the farther/other side; cf. peras = extremity, end, limit; perissos = superabundance, excess, immeasurable – but also superfluous; from peri = throughout, completely; see *PER, under PERIPHERY;
GK: epekeina = upon those parts of; on the further side of – from epi = superimposition, over (and above), upon, towards + ekeinos = that one, that very same one; see ek, under BETWEEN; cf. eiko = to yield, submit to, surrender;
GK: huper = over, above, beyond; superior to; for the sake of, regarding, concerning; huperkeina = above those parts, still further on – literally, over and above that one there;
periphery, between, yeast…
BIND
yoke
ME: binden; SKT: bandh = to bind, fasten, tie; *BENDH (bundle, bond, bend); GK: peisma = cable; L: offendix = knot, band;
HB: rachas = to tie; rachach = to soften make tender, submit to; rachash = to lay up, collect, gather, get; *RCH = softness, relaxation, dissolution; what is delicate, tender, weak, infirm; *RS = what submits, yields; *CHS = accumulation, enumeration;
HB: achar = to yoke, hitch, fasten, join, gird, harness, hold; to keep, make ready, prepare; an obligation, vow, decree, interdict; *ACH = power + assimilation; fixation; compression, compaction, centralisation; concentric motion; ach = yes (Hindi: acha = yes), compared to al = no; see *CHR (= assimilation + motion; what is apparent, eminent, distinctive, characteristic) under GRAPHIC;
HB: kshar = to tie, confine, knit, join; make an alliance; kishuwr = girdle, attire, gear; *KSH = what is compact, inextricably mixed/muddled up; *SHR = relative motion + absolute motion – analogically, the simultaneity of circle and square, curved and straight line; or the opportunities offered by a conditional agreement; D’Olivet gives three possible meanings: what liberates, opens, resolves, emits, produces – like a navel or campaign; what is solid, tenacious, resistant – like a wall, armour, chain; what is measured, coordinated, just, harmonious – like a musical harmony, or just governance;[2]
HB: ratham = to yoke up, bind – as if to the pole of a vehicle; rathach = fasten, bind; *RTH = arrested motion, retardation; what enchains, coagulates, arrests; see *RA = power, ray, vision, and *RTH, under RHYTHM
GK: deo = to bind, tie, wind; desme = bundle – as bound; desmeo = to tie, shackle; desmos = a band, ligament, shackle; an impediment, disability, chain; desmios, desmotes = captive, prisoner; cf. dei, deon = necessary, in the sense of binding (to); and deomai = to beg, pray, beseech, request – as binding oneself (to); cf. despotes = absolute ruler, lord, master; demos = the public – as bound together (socially and politically); cf. demiourgos = demiurge, maker, creator – literally a worker (ourgos) for the people (demos); dumi, duo = to sink, go down, set; and demo = to build, an edifice, house; GK/SKT: *DAM = to tame (GK: damaein; L: domare); see *DHE, *DEM under BUILD;
graphic, rhythm, build, timber, yoke…
BLACK
gleaming gloom: gloaming
AS: blac = black; bleak, OHG: blach = ink; Swedish: blaga = to smear with smut; D: blachen = burn, scorch; L: flagrare, GK: phlegein = to burn; cf. GK: phlegein = to shine, phlogeos = flaming; G: blaenken = to shine, blink, wink, glance; AS: blencan = cause to blink, deceive; *BLEG = to burn; OHG: blah = shining; (E: blank, blanch; F: blanc = white; OHG: planch = void, pale; blanket – originally a white coarse woollen cover); a parallel is the association of `gloom’ and `gleam’; E: bleak = wan, pale, exposed, pallid; AS: blican = to shine; ME: blechen; AS: blac = to whiten; and E: blind, from *BHLENDH = to become dim;
GK: melas = black; cf. melos = a limb, part of the body; melo = to be of interest to, to concern; mello = to intend, to be about to do; purpose;
GK: gnophos = gloom of a storm, darkness – from ne- = without + phos = light; cf. nephos = cloud; nepho = to abstain; nephalios = sober; zophos = gloom, shrouding like a cloud; mist;
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The darkness of creation from which Divinity speaks out of the midst of fire, cloud, and deep gloom, is a restraining obscurity.[3] Refraining, sparing: that is, kept spare as a supplement, ready and free for, but also spared as freed from. This sparse obscurity is ringed with fire: its complexion sparkles, scintillates, shimmers. Its incandescent skin—skeined darkly and withheld—distends, and gleams.[4] Darkness would then be the impossibility of encountering the face, of touching the surface of the face of Divinity. It would be that stammering which is speech disposed to come to a stand-still before the immanent and inexpressible - and yet cannot-not speak. Likewise, the darkness in which Divinity dwells[5]: a shadowy sky that is shade, tent and tabernacle.[6] The gloom of this space is its turning into itself as an indefinitely prolonged intension distending without term.[7] The double reflux of this absolute lack - which is utter blindness and privation - is ringed by fire and lightning: by the passion of internal ardour striking its cryptic concealment.[8] This sheer darkness shines.
Light is produced in this lack that is excess - after all, creation is the given as loss, as gift.[9] If the sun rays its abundance and self-consumption, its shimmer is duplicitous[10] Its luminous resonance is founded on a turning. It doubles itself into itself. This inward turning envelops and saturates to repletion - again returning outward, as through a porous boundary, to a shining that appears, or co-appears, as its face, its surface, its look. [11]
There is a kind of light which shows by an external attack, by differentiating and cutting, by discriminating, separating, isolating.[12] This kind of light violates and severs: much like the gaze which conquers by the skill of a critical scaling - practicing severance.[13] It is a light that is seen. It casts sharp and dark shadows. Some have claimed it as distinctly antipodean, and derived an architecture from an aesthetic and ethic founded on disaggregation. But there is also a kind of light which emanates from what is seen.[14] Its emanation situates and environs a looking, it brings boundaries to vacillation and ambiguity. This kind of light is not discriminating. It makes no judgement, its twilight defers visibility, it brings no dichotomies into play: light with darkness, shade with shadow, wisdom with ignorance. Rather, this light initiates a reflexive looking that turns and folds the seen as one singularity implied in and touching the other.
Surface, envelope, looking - these bear on extremity, and on touch. They touch on a praxis of proximity and intimacy.[15] What we touch, in our looking at the enveloping surfaces of Chartres Cathedral for example, is glass. But this glass doesn’t let-in light, or even filter light, so much as resist it. Its resistance defers an optical looking. Rather, our looking becomes a tactile experience of the porosity of boundary - not to an outside that lies beyond, but to the glimmer of its re-turning surfacing.
The play of light and dark is a figure of presence and absence, indicated by words such as gloom and gloam. Gloom is a lowering or frowning sky: scowling, overcast, glum.[16] The sense is one of a concealing obscurity, a hiding of light, the withdrawal of presence. Yet this darkness harbours or covers a shimmering. The glow of twilight, of dusk and dawn, is the quiet radiance of the sun in its going, and its coming - or, its coming in its going, its going in its coming. Each is present to the other as absent, as a deferred condition. It weighs-on or touches the other as a resistance, as a futural promise.
Existence and light are often implied together. To be is to dwell, to have a place, hearth or shelter - to be clothed or invested with existence.[17] To come into existence, to become, to shine, to glow - these involve a turning, converging and inclining: a being turned towards the world.[18] In this turning of the day into night into day, there is an iteration: the sun duplicates itself, folding as a reflux, and promises a re-turning.
between, dark, gleam, gloaming, gloom, twilight…
BLUR
dim, deluding stain
Swedish: blurra = blink, partially close the eyes – as in a haze caused by heat; Bavarian: plerr = a mist before the eyes; cf. E: blear = to dim (as with weeping), deceive; to have weak or inflamed (eyes);
ambiguity, atmosphere, haze, meteorology, mood…
BOARD
edging borderline
ME/AS: bord = table, board, side of a ship, shelf, plank; AS: bred, G: brett = board; E: board = to live `at table’; cf. F: bord = border, edge, brim; and aborder = to take up, reach, approach, accost, board (a ship);
HB: keresh = to split off; slab, plank; deck of a ship; bench, board; karats = to pinch, bite or squeeze off; keretz = extirpation, constriction, destruction; karko = floor, pavement of fragments, tesserae; cf. kereth = a city – as built; from karah = to light upon (by accident); to cause, bring about; to impose timbers, appoint and lay beams; kara = to bid, address, call out, name, call forth, summon, proclaim, institute; to encounter, approach, bring near, draw nigh, cause to come forth, produce; see *KER, under CREATE; and kereb = the nearest part, centre, in the midst, among; karob = nearby in place or time; kinsfolk, neighbour; the next one; qiryah = flooring, building, city; cf. karam = to cover; keren = corner, projection, prominence, hill, horn; ray of light, power; *KR = compression + motion, what is incisive, penetrant, rigid; what engraves; sign carrying memory; to fix, establish, designate; write, engrave; lecture, speech, appellation, naming, convocation, evocation; incision, digging, well, fountain, abyss; coldness, shade, shadow (of a wall, grotto, tower, city);
HB: tzalo = to curve, a rib (as curved), a (door) leaf; a side; timber or plank, flooring, beam, board; tzalal = to hover over, to shade; tzel = shade, defence, shadow; see SHADE; *TZL = finality (TZ) + directionality (L); an effect extending far – noise, shadow, obscure depth; an object extended, casting a shadow – a dais, cover, roof, veil; deep and obscure place – cavern, well;
create, border, boundary, edge, horizon, limit, shade…
BOAT
abode
ME: boot; AS: bat; Teutonic: baitoz;
HB: *BTH = interior space, receptacle, dwelling, intrinsic; SKT: *BHU = to be, to dwell; cf. bhavan = house; bower, bough; FR: bateau = boat; boot, booth, bode (message, announcement), bed, abode, abide;
being, booth, bough, building, dwelling…
BODY
abutment of being
AS: bod = message; bodian = to announce; boda = messenger; beodan = to command (bid, bode); bettan = to help, kindle; gothic: bota = advantage, profit (to boot, booty); cf. bodice = corset; boot –
OF: botte, L: botta/butta (see BUT) = cask (cf. bottle, pot, butt)
ME: bothe, G: bude = booth, stall, toll house, hut, residence (cf. *BU/BHEU = to dwell, to be); *BHEUDH = to awake, inform, bid, command; AS: beodan = to bid;
HB: *B = interiority, interior action, dwelling; the mouth; *BA = progression, gradual progression, arrival, passage from place to place; a movement of return; *BUA = to come, arrive, be born, proceed, move forward, enter; *BD = distinctness, separateness, isolation, solitude, individuality, particular existence; opening, to open the mouth, to speak; a milieu, what is between two; to disperse; *BTH = interior space, place, receptacle, proper dwelling, habitation; something detached, cut-off, distributed in parts; *BOTH = to dwell, spend the night, retire; particular and separated locality, interiority; beten = to be hollow, belly, womb; betach = place of refuge, safety, assurance, security; beyith = place, house, court, palace, temple, prison, door (cf. beyith el, beth-elohim, bethlehem = house of God); basar = to be fresh, full, rosy; to announce, preach, publish; flesh, body, skin
HB: gab = hollow, curve, back, rim, boss, vault, arch, brow; gob = pit, ditch (as cut-out or hollowed-out); gebul = chord, twisted strand; boundary, enclosed territory, border, limit; gabal = to twist (as a rope), to set bounds, limits; to define; gibah = hump or peak, hill - from gibben = arched back; geviyah - from gevah = the back, and gev/gav = back, middle - all from gaah = to mount up, increase, rise, become lofty (cf. geah = arrogance/pride); gava = breathe out, expire, die; guwph = hollow, arch, close, shut; guwphah = corpse - as closed to sense, body; geshem = body, geshuwr = to join, bridge; *GB = organic fructification, something placed over or under another; convexity - boss, excrescence, protuberance, eminence, the back; concavity, fosse, pit (cf. *KB = excavation, container of measure)
Hb: yarek = to be soft, loins, shaft, side, thigh, body parts; yerek = vacuity (of colour), pallid green, grass, vegetation; yara = flow as water, rain; yerach = lunation, month; yaresh = to occupy, seize, possess; to consume, destroy
HB: nabel = wilt, wither, fall away; nabal = wicked; nebelah = flabby, carcass, carrion; nidneh - from nadan = body as a sheath (for the soul); nephesh - from naphash = to breathe, be breathed upon, be refreshed; vitality; naphah = elevation, lifting, height - from nuwph = to vibrate up and down; *NB = inspired speech; divulgation, fructification, germination; *NPH = dispersion, effusion
HB: hetsem = bone, body, substance; to bind, make strong; hets = tree, wood; hatsah = fasten, make firm; hatseh = backbone, spine; hetsah = timber, trees; hatsum = powerful; *HETZ = determined matter, substance, vegetal element; wood, tree; that which consolidates and hardens; *H = materiality, void, emptiness, the curved; the bad, perverse; *H = matter; *HA = physical reality; *HB = centre or locus of materiality, condensation, heaviness, density, opacity; *HEL (cf. GK: hule, hulon; L: sylva = wood) = materia prima, its extensive force, elementary energy, its development in space; material extension, progression, aggregative power of increase; all that increases, extends, elevates; *HE = increase, accumulation + *TZ = term or end towards which all things tend;[19]
HB: sheer = flesh as swelling up; shaar = to swell up, leaven; sheerith = remainder, remnant, residual portion; *SHOUR = sign of harmonic proportion (sh) joined to that of integral motion (r) = that which is directed according to constant and just laws; that which liberates, opens, resolves, produces; navel; that which is solid, resistant, tenacious, vigorous, strong - wall, carapace; *SHIR = that which is measured, coordinated, just, conformable to universal harmony - musical chant, melody, government
GK: soma = the body as a sound whole - from saos = safe, saved, delivered, protected; be whole - cf. soter = saviour, deliverer; soteria = deliverance, rescue; sophrosyne = safe and sound in mind, temperate, sober, sane, moderate; sussomos = joint body, fellow members (see GK: sun- = union, completeness); cf. sema = sign, mark; semeion = sign, token; soma = the body as a corpse, the remains individual incarnated existence - inert and devoid of physical vitality: an effigy[20]; ptoma = ruin, corpse, carcas - from pipto/peto = to fall; L: corpus = body; cf. GK: karpos = the wrist (as a locus of turning the hand); cf. the Kabbalistic notion of the body as a site and place of knowing – a gnostic body;
abut, back, becoming, being, bide, bode, but, corpse, corpus, dwelling, horizon, sign…
BORDER
binding limit
ME: bordure; AS: bord; L: bordare = edge, brim, bank;
HB: gebul = twisted cord, boundary, enclosed territory; coast, chain of hills, mountain; gabal = to twist – as a rope; to bound – by a line; to set bounds, limit; cf. gibben = to be arched, contracted, turned into/inside; gebinah = curdled milk (as turned); see under SPACE;
GK: horion, horos = bound, limit, frontier, region; horizo, horizein = to mark out, bound; appoint, decree, specify, ordain, limit; horizon = the bounding or limiting circle; herkos = enclosure, fence, limit, restraint, oath; cf. oros = to rise or rear up; mountain – as risen above the plain;
board, boundary, horizon, limit, space…
BOROUGH
prominent sepulchral township
ME: burgh, borgh = town, place of shelter (E: burrow; bury = town); D: burg = fort, castle; AS: beorgan = to defend, protect, hide; Gothic: bairgain = to hide, preserve, keep; *BHERGH = to protect; cf. SKT: brhan = large; burgess = citizen; L: burgensis = belonging to a city; cf. MHG: buren, OHG: purjan = to raise, push up, elevate; G: emporung = insurrection, breaking forth; D: buuren = to lift up; Teutonic: bur, beran = to bear; allied to burgeon and bud, eye of a shoot; also cf. burial = grave, act of burying; ME: biriel, AS: byrgels, byrgen = tomb, sepulchre; E: barrow = burial mound, hillock; ME: bergh = hill, grave mound; borwgh = den, cave; lurking/hiding place; *BHER - L: forare; AS: borian; GK: pharao = cut, bore, plough, perforate; pharagx = ravine; cf. boor = peasant, tiller of the soil; AS: buan = to till, cultivate - related to *BHU = to be, dwell; AS: bur = chamber, pantry, cage, house - a place to dwell in; cf. neighbour; also cf. *BHER = bear, carry - SK: bhr = support; GK: pherein; L: ferre = to bear; (E: burden, bier, birth, barge, barque GK/L: baris = flat Egyptian boat); berth = a suitable, secure position, foothold or grasp; cf. SKT: brhant = great;
being, dwelling, periphery, shelter…
BOUDOIR
a place to sulk in
F: bouder = to sulk, pout;
BOUNDARY
furthest end
ME: bounde, L: bodina, bonna = bound, limit; Breton: boden = clump of trees, marking a boundary; OF: bodne = boundary stone; F: borne = bound, limit, marsh; `the end or furthest compass of a thing’[21]; AS: burna = stream, fountain, spring; Swedish: brunn = well; cf. E: bound = leap, to be prepared, under BEAUTY;
beauty, begin, bind, board, border, borough, horizon, limit…
BOW/BOUGH
encircling arbour
AS: bog, Iclandic: bogr = arm/shoulder (of an animal, branch of a tree;); GK: pokus = forearm; SKT: bahus = arm; cf. bow = to bend; *BHEUGH = to bow, bend, turn about (see *BEUQw, under BACK); a weapon to shoot with; shoulder or arm of a ship; cf. bower = arbour (FR: arbre = tree; cf. bout = a turn, turning, bending; G: bugt = bend, turn, bight, bay, gulf – from Teutonic: bugan = to bow; cf. bower = arbour; ME: bour, AS: bur = chamber, apartment, larder, pantry, store room; AS: byre = hut; Swedish: bur = cage; MHG: bur = house, chamber, cage; originally, a place to be in, a dwelling place, from AS: buan = to dwell; and cf. bowl (ball) = drinking vessel, from Teutonic: beul = to swell, puff up, become rounded; L: bulla = bubble.
HB: kesheh = bending; from kashoh = roundness, cover, cup; kash = arch, curvature; *KSH = what is muddled, constricted, compact, inextricable; shachah = depressed, protracted, bowed down – from *SHCH = relativity + assimilation, constriction, return into oneself, envelopment; reflection, conscience, deep meditation, speculation, sleep; see HB: shachak = obscurity, darkness, under BLACK;
HB: kara = to bend the knee – from kar/kor = deep round vessel; cf. karbel = to gird, clothe; harah = dig, plot, bore, open; kerem = garden, vineyard – for which see *KHA, under SPACE; *KHR = assimilation + motion, what engraves, digs, conserves memory; to return to oneself, reiterate, repeat; character, mark, engraving, script; round vase, measure;
GK: kampto = to bend – from kata- = down + ptaio, ptoeo = to fall; ptochos = to crouch;
GK: toxon = bow – from tikto/teko = to produce, bear, bring forth; cf. teichos = a wall - as formative of a house;
back, being, bend, black, building, dwelling, harbour, space, turn…
BRACE
stabilising bracket
OF: brasse = the two arms, a measure of 5 feet, formed by the extended arms; L: brachia, brachium, GK: brachion = the arm;
bracket…
BRACKET
forked brace
S: bragueta = projecting mold in architecture; MF: bragues, L: bracae = breeches, forked – in the sense of the forked branches of a tree; hence, corbel support made of two pieces of wood or iron joined at an angle; `bragget or staie cut out of stone or timber… to bear up the sommer (beam) or other part’[22]; bracket supporting a ship’s gallery, `brague, a kind of mortaise, or joining of peeces together’;
branch, brace…
BRANCH
sprouting iteration
L: branca = bird claw; to grip, grope;
HK: kaneh = a reed, rod, shaft, tube, stem – as erect, from kanah = to erect, create; cf, ken = chamber, dwelling, nest, room – as constructed; *KN = force which animates matter, compression + augmentation, corporeal circumscription, tendency, centralisation, concentration, self absorption, self devouring; a nest, centre, rod, measure, habitation, possession, conquest;
HB: netzer = green shoot, branch; cf. natzar = guard, protect, maintain, conceal, hide, watch; *NTZ = blooming – as term of organic growth; attainment of the highest point; tsamach = to sprout; *TZA = what breaches its material limits, arrives, pushes, is born, issues forth;
HB: zamiyr = pruned twig, branch; cf. zamar = to touch the strings of a musical instrument, to play, make music; to celebrate (in due season, at the appointed time) – from zeman = appointed occasion, season, auspicious time; zemer = a gazelle – as lightly touching the ground; zemar = instrumental music; zimrah = musical piece - as accompanied by an instrument; the best fruit – as pruned;
HB: khipah = leaf of a palm tree – from khaph = hollow palm, hand; khaphah = to bend, curve; khaphal = to fold together, repeat, iterate; khephowr = to cover; khaphiyc = to connect, a girder; cf. khephiyr = village – as covered by walls; *KHPH = curvature, concavity, inflexion; containment, capacity; palm of the hand, claw; cf. KHA, under SPACE;
HB: ben – from banah = to build, make, produce; a son - as builder of the family name; see *BN, under BUILDING;
HB: sharag = to entwine, wrap together, wreath; shariyg = tendril, entwining branch; see *SHR = opening, liberation, release, production, under BIND;
GK: klados = broken off twig, bough – from klao = to break; klasis = fracture; klema = limb, shoot; cf. kleros = portion, part, lot; cf. *KLEI = leaning, inclination, under CLIMATE;
bind, brace, bracket, building, climate, space…
BREAD
broken bit
ME: breed, bred = fragment, bit, broken piece, morsel; breche = fracture, breach; AS: brice, bryce = breaking; brecan = to break; cf. L: frustrum = fragment; from *BHREG = break;
break, brick, bridge, fragment …
BREADTH
expanse
Teutonic: braidoz = broad, wide; ME: brod, brood; AS: brad; G: breit;
HB: rohab = width, largeness, thickness; rahab = roomy; to broaden, make room; see *RH = expansion, wind, breath, spirit; what animates, moves, carries; distension, swelling and *RB = fructification, augmentation, increase, propagation; under ROOM and SPACE;
GK: platos = width, from platus = flat, spread out, broad, wide;
flat, room, space…
BRICK
broken bit
F: brique = fragment, bit, lump (of baked clay); brique de pain = bit of bread;
bread, break, brick, bridge, fragment…
BRIDGE
what bears across
AS: brig = ship (brigantine = two-masted ship; and frigate = large ship, a "swift pinnacle"); brigandine = a kind of armour "consisting of many jointed and skale-like plates" as worn by brigands or robbers; brigand = robber, pirate - from I: brigare = to quarrel; brigante = to strive after; also brig = hill-top; *BHREG = to break, brake; cf. brook - ME: brouke = use, enjoy; L: frui = enjoy, make use of; fruges, fructus = fruit; *BHREUG = enjoy, use; and ME: brook, AS: broc, G: brook = low marsh land, bog; G: bruch = rupture, therefore, “broken ground or of water breaking up or forcing its way to the surface”[23];
D: brygge = a pier; G: brucke; I: bru; R: beuno = beam, joist. Cf. breach = a fracture, fragment - as in brick (*BHREG/BREK= break with a snap; L: frangere; AS: brecan = break); and bread - originally “`a fragment,’ bit, or broken piece,” crumb or morsel[24]; breach - ME: breche, brece = fragment; breche, OF: breche = fracture;
F: brocher = to stitch, embroider, border (brooch, brocade, brochure); braid, ME: breiden, AS: bregdan = weave, entwine, turn about, knit; cf. bridle = restraint, to pull, draw; and G: brettan, AS: bregdan = to pull, weave, braid. cf. ME: braid, AS: braegd = deceit, trick; *BHER , SKT: *BHR = to support, bear, carry (E: burden, barrow, bore; cf. GK: phero, L: fero - I bear; also to cut, bore; GK: pharao = I plough; pharagx = ravine, gullet; L; forare, AS: borian = to bore;
HB: *BR = emanation, manifestation, production, fruit, offspring; fountain, source, font;
SKT: sankama/samkrama = to create (*KR) together (*SM) {in Hindu architecture, bridges leading across moats to the major entrance (SKT: mukha = mouth - for which see DOOR) of forts/palaces} - and therefore bring together two discontinuous domains or worlds; SKT: setu = bridge - *SED = to sit; saddle, seat, sedentary.
F: pont; cf. L: ponti = path, way, (later)bridge; pontiff = who makes (facere) a bridge (ponti): (pontoon = floating bridge, wherry or ferry boat - hence a bridge of boats; cf. G: pontos = the sea (pond); L: ponto = boat; punt - but also punter; and cf. L: punctum, S: punto = point/prick/centre (pointsman = attendant to the points on a railway; (pungent, poignant).
fragment, break, brick, bridge, part, periphery…
BRIM
site of excess
ME: brim = margin of a river, lake or sea; AS: brymme = border, margin; brink = edge of a pit; brenk = shore; Icelandic: brekka = slope, crest of a hill; G; brink = sward at the edge of a field;
HB: shepheth = termination, lip, margin, border; to abrade; *SHPH = what is apparent, eminent, prominent; what overflows – the lips; what arises – a hill; what appears on the surface – cream;
GK: ano = upwards, on the top, above – from anti = opposite, instead of, because of, over and against; cf. anogeon = above the ground, the second floor; anoteros = upper, in a more conspicuous place;
border, brink, horizon, limit, margin
BUD
sprouting shoot
AS: buudde, MHG: butte = bud, eye, shoot; F: boutton – button, bud; D: botten = to sprout out; cf. butt = push, thrust; ME: butten = push, strike; AS: beatan = beat, strike; F: butte = knoll, hill; but = mark, goal, end; buter = to strike;
abut, but, bead, branch, bracket…
BUILD
being-arrival of the particular
ME: bilden; AS: bold = a dwelling; Teutonic: buan = to dwell; cf. E: booth , G: bude = booth, stall; Gaelic: both, bothan, buth = a hut, residence, shop; SKT: bavan = house, place to be in – from bhu = to dwell, be, exist; bua = live, dwell – from *BHU = to be, become, dwell (cf. *PEU = to beget, to cleanse, purify – GK: pur = fire; AS: fyr = fire); AS: beon = to be, bold = house (see FUTURE); *BHA = to speak, declare; GK: phone = clear voice; L: fari = to speak, fabula = narrative, fateor = I confess; *BHAN = to speak, declare, show – GK: phanein = to show, phasis = appearance (see PHASE, PHENOMENON, and GK: phos = light); *BHA = to shine, be clear; E: busk = to get oneself ready, to prepare oneself;
`Build’ decomposed as *BLD(TH) – determined extension, arrested development - *BL = dilation, acting from centre to circumference to augment volume, increase, expand; a bubbling or boiling over, flux, diffusion, inundation; a transport, going, movement distension, abundance, profusion; but from the sense of excessive extension, a lack, default, abandonment, weakness, void, nothing; cf. *BH = sound made by something opening, what gapes, abyss; +L = directionality; expansion + *D/TH = resistance, protection, determination, definition; limitation; *LT = protective resistance, reclusion, envelopment, mystery;
E: boor = peasant, tiller of the soil (see NEIGHBOUR) – from AS: gebur = tiller of the soil; buan, OHG: buwan = to till, cultivate; E: belly, bulge, bulk – from *BHELGH = to swell (out), bulge; knob, protuberance, boss; cf. bulkhead = `partition in a ship, made with boards, forming apartments’[25] – from balk = a beam, rafter; and bulk = stall of a shop, projecting frame for display of goods, front of a butcher shop where meat is laid; Icelandic: balkr = beam, rafter, partition; see BALCONY; and E: bell, bellow, belch – from *BHELS = to resound, bark; cf. L: balteus = belt, girdle, border; see *PLE/PRL = to fill, under FULL.
HB: *BTH = space, interiority, place, container, receptacle, lodge, dwelling; what is detached, cut, distributed in parts; *BUTH = to dwell, live, inhabit, spend the night, retire at home; *BIYTH = particular and separated place, lodgement, habitation; the interior; family; what is intrinsic, local.
HB: banah = to build, set up, obtain children – from ben = a son – as builder of the family name; one born, bough, branch, issue, breed; child, youth, son; cf. beyn = a distinction, between, either-or; among, between; biyn = to mentally separate, discriminate, distinguish, understand; biynah = understanding, knowledge, wisdom – in the sense of discernment, discrimination, the ability to tell between one thing and another; *BN = progression, arrival, birth, production, emanation; corporisation, construction; to conceive, conceptualise, think, have ideas, make plans; *BH = the mouth of the human being, habitation, what is interior; *BA = progression, passage, locomotion; advent, birth, entry, manifestation; *IN = individuality, particularity; generative force of nature, plastic power, fecundating heat; *BI = movement of something advancing, appearance on the outside, comes, opens; something arriving, appearing, eventuating; *BA = action, power; continuity, progression, graduated step, coming, passage from place to place, locomotion; *BOUA = come, provenance, advent; birth, proceeding, go-ahead, enter; *NHE = what is new, young, recent; *NEH = produced elementary existence, movement leading to a goal – end, term; equilibrating power, rest, guide, existence’s rest; *N = son of man, produced being, individual produced existence;
GK: oikodomeo = to be a house builder, construct, confirm, edify; oikodome = architecture, construction, confirmation, edification – from oikos = dwelling, family, home; household, temple + demnein = to build; domos = building; L: domus = house; *DEM = to build; GK: demein = to build; GK/L: domos = a building, house; L: dominus = a master, ruler; cf. E: domestic, domicile, despot, timber; cf. *DHE = to put, place, set, do; SKT: dha = place, put; GK: tithemi = I place; thema = a proposal; thesis = something placed; thesaurus = treasure; *TEM = to be dark; SKT: tamas = dark principle; L: temere = in the dark; tenebrae = darkness; see *TEM = to cut, set apart, under TEMPLE, and *TEN = to stretch, under TENSION; cf. oikeo = to occupy a house, to reside, inhabit, inhere, remain, dwell; oikeios = domestic, household; oikioa = residence, abode, family;
. . .
The movement of something advancing, its appearance at the limit and border of its advent. In this it comes and opens as arriving appearance, as eventuation, as provenance proceeding and passing in gradual, continuous stages – the gradation of its birth, its coming-to-be, its entering into existence. It enters-in in and as the term and terminal limit of this provenance. Its motility, its locomotion, staggers. In its goal it gels. In this arresting encounter, what appears as the event of its coming, on the rim of its countenance, as the brim of its advancing occasioning, is its youth. Its coming-to-be is its coming-to-rest, is what it leaves behind as vestige and trace, already old, having already been, already at rest and residing as remnant. What remains, always – what is always rejected, abject, cast-away – is in every way, always recent: always already new.
architecture, being, between, dome, dwelling, timber, tension, temple…
BURY
grave concealment\
AS: beorgan = protect, hide, inter; byrgels = sepulchre; ME: buriel = a grave, tomb – cf. E: burrow, bore;
HB: *BR = innate motion, tending to manifest externally the creative force of a being; radius of a circle, producing and measuring out a circumference; potential creation, fruit; a son; manifestation, what comes into the light of day, emerges, arrives; what produces outside; fountain, well; excavation, well; citadel, edifice, palace;
HB: kabar = inter; kibrah = sepulchre – from kab = a hollow vessel – as scooped out; kobah = cavity, abdomen; pavilion, domed cavity, tent; kebal = to take, admit, receive, grasp, hold; kabal = opposite, presence, to be in front of; kaba = to cover; *KB = excavation, capacity for containment, measure; musical tonic or principal tone of a musical system; rejection, expurgation; *KA/QUA = vomiting; *QAP = seize, hold, capture, retain captive, hold in a capsule; see *KHA, under CAVE and SPACE
Kabbalah – what is received, revealed, handed down[26] – is tradition, as revealed and transmitted. It describes the will of God emanating as the powers, principalities, stages and forms of existence. It deals with integrating polarities, developing a series of interrelated worlds which are the various aspects of God and the various dimensions of the world. The kabbalah discerns divine powers through a theurgy of names, numbers and mystic formulae, which are interpretative strategies and techniques including gematria (number & word relations to explain sacred texts); notarikon (interpreting words by means of a sentence of which its letters provide the acronym); temurah (interchange of letters according to given rules).[27]
*QBL = relation between two things placed facing each other - encounter, opposition, passage from one to the other, receive, welcome, accept - qabbalah means `that which is received’ or transmitted (L: traditium) from one to the other; the relation is one of simultaneity as well as succession, spatial and temporal; qabl = in front of, (to have) before (one) - ie. facing spatially; as well as before in time (devant & avant) - simultaneity & succession; *QBL is also ritual orientation - that towards which we face through the chain of tradition, which is also the world chain; cf. *GB = *G(AR) = fructification, something over and above another, protuberance, eminence, something convex; *OU = sign of convertibility – from one state/being to another, knot separating and tying together; *REH = fascinate, dazzle - augmenting *RA = geometric ray as impelled from a centre, visual ray, visibility; see, consider, speculate, spectacle;
borough, cave, space…
BUT
by the outside
AS: butan = besides, without; be- = by + utan = out, outside: therefore `by the outside,’ `beyond,’ `except’; cf. F: bouter = thrust, blow, stroke, push; see butt, under BEAD; and E: buttress – from OF: bouteret = prop, support; bouter = to thrust, push;
HB: *BZ = what rises, seeking balance; to increase, push; *BT = dull noise, murmur, futile discourse; what sparks, crystal;
abut, bead, out, utter…
NOTES
[1] The close etymological connection between the motif of base/basis and the sense of going/coming - ie. venturing, links to ideas of advent and arrival. What passes beats pace and arrives as the base beaten…
[2] D’Olivet, 131.
[3] Genesis 1: 2, 4, etc.; Deuteronomy 5: 22.
[4] Darkness - HB: shashak = dusky, obscurity, witholding light, hiding, sparing; shashach = be ready/necessary; shashab = plait, weave, fabricate, mix - also devise, invent, purpose; ÖSHESH = internal ardour seeking to distend. The two senses of darkness are a centralising contractive force, and a disorganised self-destructive power. On energeia - the power to not-not be, see Agamben, The Coming Community, p. 34-5; and on manifestation as exhuberance of the One which cannot-not overflow, see Plotinus, The Enneads, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1991, V.1: `what are we to conceive as rising in the neighborhood of that immobility? It must be a circumradiation.. all that is fully achieved engenders: therefore the eternally achieved engenders eternally an eternal being,’ cf. V.2,1; and V.4,1.
[5] Exodus 20: 21; 1 Kings 8: 12; 2 Chronicles 6: 1.
[6] Sky - GK: skotia = shade, darkness - from skia = shade, shadow; cf. skenos = tabernacle; skaphe = ship (skiff); skeuos = vessel, apparatus; skene = tent, shade, habitation; AS: scinan = shine; SK: chhaya = shade, image, reflected light, splendour (sky, shimmer, sheer). See Genesis 9, 13: `I set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be a sign of the covenant between me and the earth’, and Exodus 13, 21; 19, 9: `Lo, I am coming to you in a thick cloud’; cf. HB: anan = cloud - as a covered sky; and anaph = bower, branch - as a shading canopy.
[7] Night - L: nox, noct-; GK: nux, nukt-; SKT: nakta; AS: niht; G: nacht - all from Indo-Germanic nokt (not, night, nought; note, notch; L: nodus = a knot; ÖNEDH = to bind, tie (knit). The HB: lailah = night, suggests three associated notions; ÖLA = motion without term; ÖLI = tendency of things towards each other, inclination; ÖLL = extension opposed to itself, that which envelops and ties things together.
[8] HB: haraphel = gloom of a lowering sky thick with clouds, slope, incline; ÖHUR = firstly: intrinsic motion of exteriorising physical form - therefore internal ardour, passion, inflaming fire; secondly: the contrast of light and matter, or materialised light - therefore blindness, privation of light, lack, sterility, desert; ÖHUPH = interiorised activity of matter, obscurity; cf. Psalm 97: 2-4 - where the clouds and thick darkness round about God are ringed by fire and lightning; Exodus 34: 29-35 - where Moses’ face shines after his encounter with God speaking from the darkness of a burning bush. Cf. GK: kruptos = concealed, private, in secret (crypt, cranium) - in Matthew 6: 5-6; John 7: 10; etc.
[9] Light - Öleuq; L: lux = light; luna = moon (lunatic); GK: leukos = white, bright; luknos = light; AS: leoht = light; lihtan = to shine; SKT: laghus = light; ruch = to shine (lucid, lucifer, lustre).
[10] Sun - ÖSWEN/SU = to shine; to resound; SKT: seu = to beget; su-nu(s) = a son; svan = resound, sing; L: son-us = a sound; sollus = complete in itself, alone; se = apart; SKT: surya= sun; GK: helios - from hele = ray; Helias/Elias = prophet - as sent; HB: ÖSH = duration, movement; ÖSHN =mutation, passage from one state to another; ÖSHAN = change, division, measure; shanah = duplicate, fold, repeat; the year as a cyclic revolution; ÖSHM = boundary, sphere of influence; place, time; that which shines; shemesh = to be brilliant; shama = to hear.
[11] See Luce Irigaray, An Ethics of Sexual Difference, New York: Cornell University Press, 1993, p. 189, “an efflorescence that detaches itself from its immersion and absorption in the night’s most secret place. Not without sparkling. The light that shines there is different from the one that makes distinctions and separates too neatly.” In “The Turning,” Heidegger conjoins the project of thinking the withdrawal and coming to presence of Being in terms of an in-turning of oblivion which is both the entrance and the flashing glance, or in-flashing of being, see The Question Concerning Technology and Other Essays, New York: Harper Torchbooks, 1977, pp. 36-49.
[12] ÖSEG = cut, cleave; L: secare = to cut; AS: saga = saw (section, segment, schism); ÖSQEI = shine, L: obscurus = covered over, dark; OHG: skiura = shed; Icel: sky = cloud; skalpr = sheath; ÖSKHEI/SKHEIT = cleave, part, shed; L: scindere = cleave; L: cis- = to cut (caesura, caedere); ÖSQEL = divide, discriminate, discern (skill); GK: skallein = to hoe; L: scala = step, proportion, link, ladder; scandere = to climb; SK: scand = jump, ascend (scan, escalate); HB: alah - from ÖHUL = extension, spatial relation, prepositional relation; HB: pala = distinguish, judge, accomplish; palag = divide; GK: skalenos = crooked (skew); OF: escale; Swed: skaal = bowl, curved shell for weighing.
[13] GK: sche- = to hold (to), to outline, set bounds-on; schesis, schema = to hold, check, stop; ÖSEGH = to hold. A scheme is consequently something that holds or harbours a limitation.
[14] Illich has looked at this light, and at an ethics of the gaze, in relation to Medieval manuscripts - a kind of light `glowing from within and casting no shadows,’ see `Guarding the Eye’, p. 12.
[15] This theme is usefully framed within gender and sexuality, with numerous implications for spatial practice, by Irigaray in An Ethics of Sexual Difference, pp. 34-55, 83-94 and 185-217.
[16] Gloom - HB: aphelah, aphel = to set (as the sun), dusk, concealment, obscurity; from ÖAPH = sign of power allied to speech, giving the sense of cause and finality - but as being driven in rotation; gloaming is the evening glow of twilight; gloom is cloudiness, darkness - in the sense of a frowning, lowering, scowling; Low G: gluren = overcast.
[17] ÖWES = shine; SKT: vas = shine, vasantas = spring; AS: east = east; L: uesr = spring; ÖWES = dwell, exist; SKT: vas = dwell, pass the night, tarry, watch; vastu = house, dwelling place; GK: hestia = hearth, astu = city; L: Vesta = goddess of the household; AS: wesan = to be; ÖWES = clothe; SKT: vas = clothe; GK: hesthos = clothing; L: uestis = garment (vest, invest, vestment); ÖWER = cover, surround, defend (wear); SKT: vr = screen, cover, surround, vrti = enclosure; GK: herusthai = protect (warren, weir); cf. ÖARQ = protect, keep safe; L: arca = box (ark, arch); and ÖGHER = seize, grasp, gird; SKT: hr = seize; GK: khoros = round dance in an enclosure, khortos = yard, enclosure; L: hortus = yard, garden; AS: geard = yard; GK: khorde = string of gut; AS: gearn = yarn (garden, chorus, choir, horticulture, cohort, girth).
[18] ÖWERT = turn, become; SKT: vrt = turn, exist, be; L: uertere = turn; AS: weordan = become (verse, vertex, vortex, convert).
[19] D’Olivet renders *HETZ as vegetative substance, vegetative aspect of elementary nature, as matter in the process of working: extensive, invading force
[20] Vernant, Dim body, dazzling body, in Feher, M. (Ed.), Fragments for a History of the Human Body, V Zone, N.Y., 1989, 1: 21. Vernant reads `corporeity’ in archaic Greek as not acknowledging a distinction between body and soul, and as not admitting the notion of an organic unity of vital and mental functions. Other terms mentioned by Vernant include demas - stature, size, build: as the erection of a construction of superimposed rows; eidos and phue - carriage, imposing appearance; and chros - body, skin, external envelope, flesh-tint, complexion; guia - bodily members in their suppleness and articulated mobility; melea - limbs as bearers of force.
[21] Skeat, 69.
[22] Skeat, citing Baret (1580), 71.
[23] Skeat, 75.
[24] Skeat, 73.
[25] Skeat, 78.
[26] Rene Guenon, Formes Traditionelles et Cycles Cosmiques. Paris: Gallimard, 1970: 61-80; Symboles Fondamentaux de la Science Sacree, Paris: Gallimard, 1962.
[27] John Ferguson, An Illustrated Encyclopaedia of Mysticism and the Mystery Religions. London, Thames and Hudson, 1976: 98-9.