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The Arabic Origins of "Water and Sea" terms in English, German, and French: a lexical root theory approach
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Language in India, 2013-02, Vol.13 (2), p.126-151
Ort / Verlag
Madasamy S. Thirumalai
Erscheinungsjahr
2013
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This paper applies the lexical root theory to the investigation of the Arabic origins of water and sea terms in English, (German, French, and Latin). The data consists of over a 150 English words for water, sea, fish and ships. The results show that all such words in Arabic and English, for example, are true cognates with the same or similar forms and meanings, which means they belong not only to the same family but also to the same language, contrary to traditional Comparative (Historical Linguistics) Method claims. The different forms amongst Arabic and English words are shown to be due to natural and plausible causes of phonetic, morphological and semantic change. For example, Greek hydro, English water, and German Wasser all come from Arabic qaTr 'water, rain' via different sound change routes where /q & T/ became /h & d/ in Greek but /w & t (s)/ in English and German. Due to their lexical variety and multiplicity, Arabic words are the original source from which they emanated. In short, this proves the adequacy of the lexical root theory for the present analysis according to which Arabic, English, German, French, Latin, and Greek are dialects of the same language with the first being the origin. Keywords: Water, sea, and shipping words, Arabic, English, German, French, Latin, historical linguistics, lexical root theory