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    The document describes physical attributes of someone from the Song of Solomon in the Bible. It states that his head is like the purest gold and his hair is bushy and black as a raven. The second part provides etymological information about the Latin word "crinis" meaning hair, tracing it back to an Proto-Indo-European root meaning to shake or swing, referring to how hair moves.

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    The document describes physical attributes of someone from the Song of Solomon in the Bible. It states that his head is like the purest gold and his hair is bushy and black as a raven. The second part provides etymological information about the Latin word "crinis" meaning hair, tracing it back to an Proto-Indo-European root meaning to shake or swing, referring to how hair moves.

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    Song of Songs (Solomon) : "11 His Head Is Like The Purest Gold. His Hair Is Bushy, Black As A Raven. "

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    - Song of songs (Solomon)

    "11 His head is like the purest gold.

    His hair is bushy, black as a raven. "

    https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Bible_(World_English)/Song_of_Solomon

    - krsna black
    crocio 145 crinis chair of the head' [f. /] (P1.+, m. Pac.+; usually pi.) Derivatives: crimius 'having
    hair' (Enn.+). Pit *krisnir. PIE *kris-ni-. IE cognates: Go. of-, us-hrisjan 'to shake off, out', OE OS
    hrissan 'to shake, shiver'; OIc. hris 'shrubs', OE hris 'branch, brush'. One may detect a Latin stem
    *kris- 'crest, plume, hair' in crinis and in Lat crista and crispus. IEW compares Celtic and Gm.
    verbs in *kris- or *Ara- which mean 'to swing, shake', under the assumption that the hair was
    referred as 'what you can shake back and forth'. This is possible, but not very appealing; and in
    Germanic, the vowel is long. Bibl.: WH I: 292, EM 151, IEW 937. -> crisd, crispus, crist

    https://www.bulgari-istoria-2010.com/Rechnici/Etymological%20dictionary%20of%20Lat%20-
    %20de%20Vaan,%20Michiel_5820.pdf

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