From: The Egyptian Chronicles
Message: 51388
Date: 2008-01-18
PIE reconstruction in need of revision based on linguistic evidences outside (IE).
PIE: *bher-1 (PIE base *bhor-/*bhr-)
BORE 1 v. tr. TRANSITIVE VERB: 1. To
make a hole in or through, with or as if with a drill. 2. To form (a tunnel, for
example) by drilling, digging, or burrowing. PIE:
bher-1. O.E. borian "to bore," from bor "auger," from P.Gmc.
*boron, from PIE base *bhor-/*bhr- "to cut with a sharp point"
(cf. Gk. pharao "I plow," L. forare "to bore, pierce," O.C.E. barjo "to strike,
fight," Alb. brime "hole") cf. Gk. peirein "to pierce.
http://www.bartleby.com/61/20/B0402000.html
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Compare with:
*B'R Common Semitic noun *b'r to bore, to dig.
http://www.bartleby.com/61/roots/S40.html
B'R : Hebrew/Aramaic: ba'ar
(baw-ar) a primitive root; to bore, i.e.
(figuratively) examine (1)
:--declare.; to dig; by analogy, to engrave; figuratively, to
explain:--declare, (make) plain(-ly).; a pit; especially a well:--pit, well.
Beer, a place in the Desert, also one in
Palestine:--Beer, from buwr (in the
sense of 'bo'r' ); a pit hole (especially one used as a cistern or a
prison):--cistern, dungeon, fountain, pit, well. (Strong: #
952,953, 874,875 & 876).
B'R / BW'R Classical
Arabic: 1. to bore, to dig ; a pit, a fire pit, a storage pit, a well, a
cistern. 2. Beirut, from Arabic bayrt, from Phoenician *birt, plural of
*bir, well. Figuratively, he hid or concealed a thing. A thing stored for a
time of need. He did a good thing beforehand after storing or concealing a
thing for himself.
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* (1) compare with PORE (v.) c.1300," to investigate, examine.
Ishinan