Re: what is etymology? (linguistics and biology)

ACCA or AKA --- oldest written word known so far ?

Indo-European is a reconstruction. Same for Nostratic.
And for my Guyan (ghee-an), named for Jacques Guy,
Magdalenian as it might have been spoken in the Guyenne
15,000 years ago, achieved mainly by what I am now calling
holographic etymology, namely the hypothetical capability
of the immensely complex human brain to generate a more
or less complete (holos - whole) verbal morphospace from
the languages acquired and learned.

Two Magalenian words I found early on are AC for an
expanse of land with water, and CA for sky. Looking out
for possible precursors I found little evidence for AC but
ample evidence for CA or better KA, meaning sky, above,
beyond, hidden from us, accessible to shamans, inside
of rock, inside a well, deep inside ourselves. My evidence
was provided by a central Australian language; the Ainu
language; the language of the Xan in South Africa; ancient
Egyptian; and a sample of Red Indian words (apart from
the many words I already found in present Indo-European
languages).

Klaus Schmidt's freshly released book on Goebekli Tepe
(you find more websites and pictures when you google
for "göbekli tepe") offers me a welcome opportunity for
testing my Guyan or Magdalenian. On pillar 30 of oval D
is a hieroglyph in the form of a lying H, under the sign are
snakes heading downward which I understand as symbols
of rain that fills the rivers. On the lower panel of pillar 33 in
the same oval D appears a lying H next to the long neck of
a crane. The lower bar or panel of the sign may be read as
AC for earth, the upper one as CA for sky, and the central
element as a mute sign of combination, yielding AC-CA
or ACCA or AKA.

An ancient Egyptian word Aqa -- feather of Maat / seated
man touching the mouth with the right hand, speaking /
a small triangle / sign for a foreign land / a kite -- names
an unknown Syrian district. I dare say it was the greater
area of Goebekli Tepe, including Urfa, Nevali Cori, the
Karacadag, and the Harran plain south of Goebekli Tepe
in northern Syria.

ACCA --- where earth and sky are (getting) connected

Regards Franz Gnaedinger www.seshat.ch



Holographic etymology

The galaxies in the cosmic depths form 3-dimensional
patterns of clusters and filaments, while pictures taken
of our planet by night show similar 2-dimensional patterns
of light: clusters and filaments. I find it fascinating how
gravity in one case and logistics in the other case
generate analogous patterns.

Also the neurons of the animal including the human
animal form a cluster, namely the brain, and a filament,
namely the neurons along the intestines, only recently
discovered and dubbed a second brain by some biologists.

The human brain contains one hundred billion neurons
(even double as many according to Gary Marcus), each
one connected with a thousand other neurons, thus
achieving a degree of complexity that corresponds to
a space of twelve dimensions.

Biologists have been wondering how many microbes
dwell on the surface of leafs: six times as many as the
surface of a leaf should hold. The solution came from
fractal geometry: the surface of a leaf has a fractal
dimension between 2 (area) and 3 (volume), yielding
an area of about six times the classical area on the
scale of microbes.

A fractal dimensional increase allows many more
microbes to dwell on a leaf, and the twelve dimensions
of the human brain's neuronal interconnections allow
to store many many many more information than can
be compiled in a book the volume of the human brain.

My thesis: when acquiring and learning languages
the human brain establishes connections among them,
generating a deep and stable pattern of words I call deep
etymology, or, perhaps better: holographic etymology.

Next time: the oldest written word known so far
(10,000 years, Goebekli Tepe / Göbekli Tepe)

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