Human Body Organs (An Establishing Study) in Semitic Languages

Abstract

The research aims at studying words that refer to the parts of the human body, as originated in Arabic Language and her sisters; For the purpose of disclosing the common origins and connotations among these languages, many of which were dealt with in an independent research. This study intends to follow another set of words (references), that refer to human body organs, originated to linguistic subscriptions shared among these languages. And this is the result that was reached by relying on the comparative historical methodology of tracking these words; and another result derived from this methodology is that these words belong to a single Indo-Semitic language.

      The research came with a summary in English and Arabic, and the table of the transliteration of the words into Arabic, then the origins of the words, then the results, then the list of sources and references used in the research. Arabic shares with its Semitic sisters a group of words that refer to the parts of the human body. All the words that were studied and researched are linguistic commons among the Semitic group. The comparative historical lesson followed in this study confirmed the return of these languages to a single linguistic framework. All the words that I discussed in the research were similar in their origins and connotations when traced historically from the earliest form of the word’s appearance to its current form.