English
from the river to the sea
From the river to the sea comes from Hebrew בֵּין הַיָּם לַיַּרְדֵּֽן ‘between the Mediterranean Sea and the…’.
- Hebrew1880s–presentבֵּין הַיָּם לַיַּרְדֵּֽןben ha-Yám la-Yardén‘between the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan River’
- Englishearliest quotation 2023from the river to the sea
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Hebrew1880s–presentבֵּין הַיָּם לַיַּרְדֵּֽןben ha-Yám la-Yardén‘between the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan River’
- Englishearliest quotation 2023from the river to the sea
Earliest quotation: 2023, Ilan Pappé, Why Israel wants to erase context and history in the war on : “The way out [of this cycle of violence] remains…”
Made of the words from + the + river + to + the + sea
Proto-Indo-European *pro- ‘forth’
Proto-Germanic *fram ‘forward’
Proto-West Germanic *fram
Old English from ‘forward’
Middle English from
English from
Proto-Indo-European *h₁reyp- ‘to scratch, tear’
…
Latin rīpārius ‘of a riverbank’
Early Medieval Latin rīpāria ‘littoral, riverbank’
Anglo-Norman riviere
Middle English ryver ‘a river’
English river
Proto-Indo-European *de ‘to’
…
Proto-Germanic *tō
Proto-West Germanic *tō
Old English tō ‘to’
Middle English to
English to
Proto-Germanic *saiwiz ‘sea, lake’
Proto-West Germanic *saiwi ‘body of water’
Old English sǣ
Middle English see ‘sea’
English sea
The story
A calque of Arabic مِنَ ٱلنَّهْرِ إِلَى ٱلْبَحْرِ (mina n-nahri ʔilā l-baḥri, “from the [[[Jordan]]] River to the [Mediterranean] Sea”), popularized among Palestinians by the Palestine Liberation Organization; from Hebrew בֵּין הַיָּם לַיַּרְדֵּֽן (ben ha-Yám la-Yardén, “between the [Mediterranean] Sea and the Jordan [River]”), as seen in the platform of the right-wing Zionist Likud party in 1977; both phrases refer to the geography of historic Palestine.
Every English word from Hebrew בֵּין הַיָּם לַיַּרְדֵּֽן
Today it means
phrase A slogan expressing support for Palestinian self-determination.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Hebrew בֵּין הַיָּם לַיַּרְדֵּֽן / from the river to the sea