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The Hebrew Sources of Northern
Tongues
Regarding the Linguistic Thesis
of
Terry Marvin Blodgett.
Terry Marvin Blodgett in 1981 published a Ph.D. thesis ("Phonological
Similarities in Germanic and Hebrew", The University of Utah, 1981) in which he
proved that the original tongue of the northern "Barbarians" who overran Europe
was Hebrew. These peoples are commonly referred to as "Germanic" since some of
them had sojourned at one stage in Germany and their language had been adopted
by the German "natives".
The peoples in question however had little real connection to the present-day
inhabitants of the area of Germany.
Blodgett, now Professor of Languages,
Southern Utah University, Cedar City, Utah, USA, showed how it is
academically-accepted that approximately one-third of all "Germanic" vocabulary
is of an unknown (non-Indo-European) origin [This assertion may be easily
confirmed by a brief glance at the relevant literature]. There were also other
linguistic features that need explanation such as certain peculiarities in the
rules of pronunciation: "The Germanic sound shifts and gemination [i/e/
double-sounding of consonants as found in Hebrew]are not to be explained on the
basis of Indo-European linguistics".
These foreign non-Indo-European elements are attributable (says Terry Blodgett)
to Hebrew incursions recognizable in the areas of phonology, morphology, and
lexicology.
"English, Frisian, Dutch, Flemish, High and Low German, Danish, Swedish,
Norwegian, and Icelandic, as well as the extinct languages of Gothic, Old Norse,
Old Saxon, and others comprise one of the Indo-European groups of language
commonly called Germanic. On a broader scale, the Germanic branch of languages
shares many features in common with the Italic, Greek, Celtic, Slavonic,
Indo-Iranian and other Indo-European groups". Even so the Germanic branch of
these languages has a non-"Indo-European" component comprising approximately
one-third of the total: It is this element that Blodgett identified as HEBREW!!!
Blodgett proves his case using terminology and a great many examples of a
technical nature. [That there was a non-Indo-European basis for the Germanic
languages is generally accepted in academic circles. The nature of this basis
has not been decided upon.]
A crude but reliable enough notion of the overall tendency of Blodgett's work is
as follows:
At some early stage, there occurred a series of sound shifts in the Germanic
language or languages, the Indo-European "bhrator" became "brother", "peter"
became "father", etc. "p" became "f", "t" became "th","k" became "ch", b, d, and
g also changed.
Opinions concerning the date of this Germanic Sound Shift give dates varying
from 2000 BCE to 9 CE. On the one side, John T. Waterman ("A History of the
German Language", 1966) says "the general consensus of scholars is that the
Germanic Sound Shift began probably not much before the fifth century B.C., and
that it was essentially completed by the last pre-Christian century", i.e. from
ca. 400 BCE to 100 BCE.
Waterman bases his case on the fact that words in Germanic borrowed from Greek
in the 400s BCE also underwent the shift whereas words taken from Latin in the
first century BCE did not.
"On the other hand, Heinz F. Wendt ("Sprachen", 1977) believed that the shift
had been essentially completed by 500 B.C."
Overall it is assumed (Blodgett quotes sources) that the sound shift occurred
around 500 BCE give or take a century or two. All Germanic dialects took part in
the shift so it is assumed that the change took place whilst the parent groups
were still in the north, -in Scandinavia and Northern Germany. The period of 500
BCE (for the said "Sound Change") is the one most authoritative opinion seems to
converge on. Whether it occurred before 500 BCE or in the following era the most
important point for us is recognition of the fact that it did occur.
A lot of reasons have been proposed to explain this shift but the bottom line is
that the Cause is generally ascribed to ethnic factors implying racial mixture.
"S. Feist thinks that the northern peoples were originally non-Indo-European,
who learnt their Indo-European from the broad-headed Alpine race...."
Waterman said:
"It is reasonable to assume that a non-Germanic substratum had some influence
upon the language of those Indo-Europeans who migrated to the area in northern
Europe which later became the Germanic homeland..."
Waterman appears to assume that "Indo-Europeans" moved to northern Germany where
there already existed a non-Indo-European speaking element and that these
influenced the "Indo-Europeans". Our (Brit-Am) own studies show the opposite. We
have evidence that peoples from the East, of Hebrew descent, via Scythia invaded
Germany and influenced the "Indo-European" natives.
The newcomers from Scythia according to archaeology in east Scythia used Aramaic
as their major language. There is some evidence that they also used Hebrew and
that the Lost Ten Tribes prior to their exile had used both Hebrew and Aramaic.
This knowledge is based on archaeological finds.
Some of the Israelites (e.g. those who were east of the Jordan according to
inscriptions) before their exile spoke an Aramaic dialect similar to Hebrew. The
Scythians in east Scythia must have used Hebrew as well as Aramaic. New work by
Scandinavian scholars such as Dr. Dr. Kjell Artuns "Runer" (Oslo, Norway, 1994)
and Orjan Svensson (of Blekinge in Sweden) have proven that the first Runic
inscriptions in Scandinavia were written in both Hebrew and Aramaic dialects.
Orjan Svensson has shown that the language of some of these inscriptions is
almost Certainly Hebraic!! In other cases it is Aramaic or in a Hebrew-type
related tongue.
Early Nordic dialects as well as early English ones still retained a large
number of Hebrew words and Hebrew characteristics. Remnants of these are still
to be found in the English language.
The Germanic Sound Shift can best be explained by the mass presence of former
Hebrew-speakers. The same changes that occurred in "Germanic" languages occur in
Hebrew according to fixed Grammatical and phonetic rules. Blodgett points out
that people who from birth made the said changes would naturally have tended to
speak as if the changes also held in a foreign language that they may have been
forced to use at short notice.
Even technical sophisticated details concerning rules of the Sound Shift in
Hebrew were continued into Germanic. The Sound Shift is not the only factor
demonstrating this same principle which seems to hold throughout all possible
examples.
(e.g. "Hebrew rijchah 'sense of smell' and verb form rijach [pronounced
"ray-ach"] 'to smell' compare with German riechen 'to smell'.
"..The {sh}of Hebrew was usually represented , sometimes by {s}, and
occasionally by {st} in Germanic. This is not only true of Biblical names such
as Shaul - Saul, but also of ancient words such as Hebrew shaphah 'to scrape,
form, shape, create'. Two words appear in Germanic similar in form and meaning
to the Hebrew "shaphah": the first is Old Norse skrap and English scrape; the
second is Old Norse skap and Old Saxon scapan, which eventually developed into
High German shoepfen and English shape". In Ancient Hebrew there were also
changes, "shiboleth" became "siboleth" between one Tribe and another (Judges
12;6). Blodgett gives tens of examples to back each of his claims up and he goes
through and explains each one of them. The total number of examples reach into
the hundreds, and each example is a good one!!
"Gemination, or the doubling of consonants [e.g. apple = pronounced as "ap-ple",
"middle" is pronounced as "mid-dle"]...while seen sporadically throughout all
Germanic dialects in general, is far more developed in the West Germanic areas.
This phenomenon of gemination has an amazingly close parallel in Hebrew..." In
West Germanic dialects (e.g. Frisian, Anglo-Saxon) there are a sizable number of
words showing gemination which are similar in form and meaning to words in
Hebrew. In Hebrew you have "kabal" meaning "to complain, cry out, oppose,get
ahead of someone". "Kabal" in Hebrew is pronounced as "Kab=bal" with a
gemination or doubling of the "b" consonant. KABAL gave rise to the English "spabble"
= to quarrel noisily, and "quibble" meaning "to argue in an attempt to receive
the largest portion". In this as in very many others you have a word that sounds
the same, follows the same grammatical rules and means the same in both
languages!! Geminations are found in Gothic, Old Norse, and Old English. There
are other parallels between Hebrew and the Old Germanic tongues that are of a
technical nature. The parallels include much Vocabulary. Professor Blodgett
presents a list containing hundreds of detailed examples.
Another Source: Karl Rodosi.
There are several sources that provide additional examples of similarities
between "Germanic" tongues and Hebrew in vocabulary. The one that most impressed
us was "The Origin of Modern Culture Languages and their Derivation from the
Hebraica," by Professor Karl Rodosi, 1891.
This work also adequately proves that the so-called Germanic tongues must have
been formed by peoples who originally spoke Hebrew. The implications of these
studies regarding ancestry are applicable to West Europeans but donot encompass
most of the modern Germans. The case is similar to that of the present
inhabitants of the USA who now nearly all speak English though only a portion of
their ancestors came from Britain.
A few examples culled at random from Rodosi include: English "BEAR": bore or
bare-borne: from Hebrew "over" pass over. The "v" and "b" are interchangeable in
Hebrew.
English "BEAT" from Hebrew "BAT" trample, kick.
English "BECOME" from Hebrew "KOM" come into appearance, arise.
English "BLOW" from Hebrew "BLOW" swallow.
English "BURN" from Hebrew "BAER".
English "BURST" from Hebrew "PRATS"
English "BUY" from Hebrew "BUY" request.
English "CHOSE" from Hebrew "CHIZEH" search out, chose (Exodus 18;21).
English "CLOTHE" from Hebrew "CHELATZ".
English "DARE" from Hebrew ADIR might.
English "DIG" From Hebrew "DACHA" ditch.
English "DO" from Hebrew "ADAH" cause.
English "DRIVE" from Hebrew "DARBEN" (????) urge forward, drive on.
English "EAT" from Hebrew "CHIUT" give life to.
English "FEEL" from Hebrew "FEIL" effect.
English "HEAR" from Hebrew "HEIR" arouse, awaken.
English "LIGHT" from Hebrew "LAHAT" flame, illuminate.
English "MAKE" from Hebrew MAKIN prepare.
English "MEAN" from Hebrew "MANAH" answer.
English "RIDE" from Hebrew "Rideh" rule, subjugate.
English "SET" from Hebrew "SIT" to place.
English "SHALL" from Hebrew "SHAL" request, require.
English "TEACH" from Hebrew TOKEACH admonish.
English "WILL" from Hebrew WEYAL will.
etc, etc.
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