(e) Éclats de roche : Une étude d’étymologie sur les noms de la pierre en latin, grec et arabe

Authors

  • Jean-Claude Rolland

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5617/jais.6126

Abstract

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

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How to Cite

Rolland, J.-C. (2018). (e) Éclats de roche : Une étude d’étymologie sur les noms de la pierre en latin, grec et arabe. Journal of Arabic and Islamic Studies, 17, 377–406. https://doi.org/10.5617/jais.6126

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Approaches to the Etymology of Arabic