Open Access(e) Éclats de roche : Une étude d’étymologie sur les noms de la pierre en latin, grec et arabe
Author(s) -
Jean-Claude Rolland
Publication year - 1970
Publication title -
journal of arabic and islamic studies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 0806-198X
DOI - 10.5617/jais.6126
Subject(s) - etymology , arabic , lexicology , philosophy , humanities , history , linguistics , art
Starting from the Latin cases of semantic parallelism, rūpēs || rumpō and saxum || secō, this study goes through a number of Arabic denominations of the stone to demonstrate that in Arabic too there is a strong relationship between those denominations and many roots that basically express an act of breaking or cutting something. The conclusions are the following: – the Greek equivalents of “stone”, the etymology of which is obscure, might have the same relationship with some Greek or Latin words expressing the act of breaking; – Greek πέτρᾱ [pétrā] might be of Semitic origin.Key words: Arabic, Greek, Latin, lexicology, etymology, stone, fragment, breaking, stroke, Bohas