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Until a possible language origin for [[JAREDITES|J<small>AREDITE</small>]] can be determined, all suggestions for etymologies of [[JAREDITES|J<small>AREDITE</small>]] names must remain more speculative than substantive.
Until a possible language origin for [[JAREDITES|J<small>AREDITE</small>]] can be determined, all suggestions for etymologies of [[JAREDITES|J<small>AREDITE</small>]] names must remain more speculative than substantive.


If [[JAREDITES|J<small>AREDITE</small>]] names can be traced to Semitic roots, one may suggest the common Semitic ''libb'' (cf. Heb. ''lēḇ''), "heart; center, midst."
Sumerian ''lib'' "(to be) rich, well-off; high quality; (to be) happy" = Akkadian ''hadû'', ''hidiātu'', ''râšu'', ''rāšû'', ''rīšātu''.<ref>ePSD.</ref>


Urrutia suggests that this may be a variant of [[LEVI|L<small>EVI</small>]] (q.v.), another [[JAREDITES|J<small>AREDITE</small>]] name which he says is perhaps related to Hebrew ''lābīʾ'', “lion,” believing that a number of [[JAREDITES|J<small>AREDITE</small>]] names are related to the lion or leopard (NPSEHA 150.0 [Aug. 1982]). See [[LEVI|L<small>EVI</small>]].
Sumerian ''lib'' "inner body part; heart" = Akkadian ''libbu'', ''lib-bi'' "heart, center"<ref>ePSD.</ref> = Hebrew ''lēb'', ''lēbāb''.<ref>Tawil, ''Akkadian Lexical Companion'', 177-184.</ref>


Untenable is the suggestion of “whiteness” in [[George Reynolds|Reynolds]], Commentary on the Book of Mormon, VI, p. 46. In the Semitic languages “white” and its variations are formed around
Sumerian ''lib'' "dazed silence, (deathly) silence; (to be) dazed" = Akkadian ''šaqummatu''; cf. ''lib''<sub>4</sub> "agitate." Cf. Sumerian ''lib''<sub>4</sub>-''lib''<sub>4</sub> "plunderer."<ref>ePSD.</ref>


the root ''lbn'', where all three radicals are phonemic; therefore, the n cannot be arbitrarily dropped to obtain “'''LIB'''.”
See [[RIPLAKISH|R<small>IPLAKISH</small>]], [[RIPLIANCUM|R<small>IPLIANCUM</small>]], [[RIPLAH|R<small>IPLAH</small>]]


Because in many languages the liquid consonants, ''r'' and ''l'' interchange or are not distinguished, and because ''p'' is the unvoiced counterpart of ''b'',<ref>The best example of this is the fact that “paper” and “Bible” can both be traced back to the Late Bronze Age Phoenician city Byblos, where papyrus was first manufactured/merchandized.</ref>
cf. Book of Mormon
[[RIPLAKISH|R<small>IPLAKISH</small>]], [[RIPLIANCUM|R<small>IPLIANCUM</small>]], [[RIPLAH|R<small>IPLAH</small>]] ([[Robert F. Smith|RFS]]).
'''Variants'''
'''Variants'''


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[[Category:Names]][[Category:Jaredite PN]]
[[Category:Names]][[Category:Jaredite PN]]

Revision as of 12:58, 15 July 2013

Jaredite PN 1. King (Ether 1:17, 18; 10:18, 19 (x3), 29)
2. Usurper (Ether 14:10 (x2), 11 (x2), 12 (x3), 13, 14, 15 (x2), 16 (x3), 17)

Etymology

Until a possible language origin for JAREDITE can be determined, all suggestions for etymologies of JAREDITE names must remain more speculative than substantive.

Sumerian lib "(to be) rich, well-off; high quality; (to be) happy" = Akkadian hadû, hidiātu, râšu, rāšû, rīšātu.[1]

Sumerian lib "inner body part; heart" = Akkadian libbu, lib-bi "heart, center"[2] = Hebrew lēb, lēbāb.[3]

Sumerian lib "dazed silence, (deathly) silence; (to be) dazed" = Akkadian šaqummatu; cf. lib4 "agitate." Cf. Sumerian lib4-lib4 "plunderer."[4]

See RIPLAKISH, RIPLIANCUM, RIPLAH

Variants

Deseret Alphabet: 𐐢𐐆𐐒 (lɪb)

Notes

  1. ↑ ePSD.
  2. ↑ ePSD.
  3. ↑ Tawil, Akkadian Lexical Companion, 177-184.
  4. ↑ ePSD.
RFS
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