Ancient Hebrew Language and Alphabet

Ancient Hebrew Language and Alphabet
pictographs of the Parent Root will also help us to
determine the original meaning of this Parent Root. Once
the meaning of the Parent Root is determined, this will in
turn help us to better define the roots and words derived
from the parent. Let us use the Parent Root /$l 38 /l.k as
an example;
Root Word Meaning
Parent Walk
Child Walk
Step
March
Walking
Walk
Child Walk
The original pictographs of the Parent Root are and
are the pictures of a shepherd staff and the palm of the
hand. While these pictographs can have a wide range of
meaning due to the various mnemonic understandings, the
words that are derived from it have the meanings of walk,
step and march. Therefore, we can understand the
pictographs to mean "to carry a staff in the palm for
walking".
Reconstructing the Parent Roots
The meanings of the Parent Roots provide the foundation
for the meaning of all the Child Root that are formed out
of it. These Parent Roots were generic in meaning
38 The Kaph is written as $ when at the end of a word and a k when in
a word.
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