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