[Lexicog] Re: Figurative expressions for "courage" in different language

[Kees van Kolmeschate]

--- In lexicographylist at yahoogroups.com, Peter Kirk <peterkirk at q...>
wrote:
> On 19/02/2005 01:43, Fritz Goerling wrote:
>
> >Hebrew "chutzpah" is an interesting word, too. .... but there is
no bibical root het-tsade-pe.

http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=chutzpah
says chutzpah (Dutch "gotspe") is from _Mishnaic_ Hebrew Het-Sade-pe.
The word is found Ben-Yehuda/Weinstein's Pocket English-Hebrew + vv
dictionary:
hHSyp (hekhetsif) to be impertinent, bold,
htHSp (hitkhattsef) to be impudent,
HSph or HwSph (khutspa) insolence, impudence.

gr, Kees.





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