Re: what is etymology? (linguistics and biology)

Okay

LOG with a clicking L means profane language,
GOL with a clicking L means the cavity of the mouth,
GLO with a clicking L means the utterances of a shaman
in a trance, and OLG with a clicking L means holy. One
might indicate the L click with an exclamation mark !L :
!LOG - GO!L - G!LO - O!LG. There is a short way from
the latter to Old English haleg and holeg, and German
heilig for holy.

The profane language !LOG belongs to the earthly realm
of AC, the holy language G!LO belongs to the heavenly
realm of CA.

AC as the world we live in is the concern of OC, eye,
verb see. CA as the beyond is the concern of CO, mind,
verb think.

CO survives in Latin con / com, for example in Latin
computare, think together, present in our computer,
a device that compiles and combines information.

OC was the eye in general, the right eye in particular.
The left eye was AY or EY. My two hypothetical
Magdalenian words OC and AY / EY became Sanskrit
*oq- and o. They survive in French ocular and oeil,
in English ocular and eye. Earlier English forms were
eghen and eien, egghnen and eiine.

The inverse of AY / EY is YA / YE, surviving in German
Ja and English yeah. From this I conclude (note the con-)
that in Magdalenian times a firm look into someone's eyes
was a way of saying yes, perhaps accompanied by a nod.
Interestingly, some early forms of English eyes were yes
ies yees ayes. In southern France the word for yes is oc
(langue d'oc), the same as my Magdalenian OC. The yes
in northern France is oui (langue d'oui) that comes close
to oeil for eye.

I look out of my eyes, I am present in my look, so the
word for eye can serve as pronoun I. AY - English I.
OC - Latin oculum and ego. Italian occhio for eye, might
combine OC and io. French yeux for eyes, and je for I.

OC AY may have been a double affirmation. It might
have survived in Scottish och, aye - alas, it is so;
and in Choctaw okeh - it is so. OC and AY would then
have traveled both ways from the Magdalenian homeland
to the New World, northern America (10,000 years ago
eastward, and in the 19th century AD westward) where
they met again and survived in okay -- a famous word
understood and used all over the world.

Regards Franz Gnaedinger www.seshat.ch


LOG GOL GLO OLG (each with a clicking L)

Typical for Magdalenian are words of three letters,
their inverses and permuations, with related meanings.

Magdalenian LOG with a clicking L means language
and reason in a wordly sense. The physiologically
pleasing word claimed a place in English language.
Lang- of language is close to LOG. Pronounce LOG
LOG LOG LOG LOG ... LANG LANG LANG LANG
LANG ... with clicking L and you will note how close
they are physiologically. - Imagine an experiment.
Boycott French, remove langu(e) from language
and replace it with the English tongue. Say tonguage
from now on. Rename sci.lang into sci.tong. Make it
Webster's Encyclopedic Unabridged Dictionary of the
English Tonguage. Burn the grammar books and print
new ones in the English tonguage. Spread tonguage
everywhere, in the newspapers, journals and books,
on telly, radio, web and Usenet ... Would never work.
Even the most fervent froggie-haters love their French
tongue language.

The inverse of log is GOL, Magdalenian for the cavity
of the mouth. Pronounce GOL GOL GOL GOL GOL ...
with a clicking L and you can't but arrive at COLA.
Coca Cola is the most famous lemonade, and its
LOGO a beauty. The Italians have gola for mouth,
the French inferior geule, while the Americans filled a
vacant physiological place with their brand Coca Cola.

LOG LOGLOGLOGLOGLOGLO GLO

Magdalenian GLO with a clicking L has the meaning of
speaking in tongues, used for a shaman conveying the
voices of the beyond. The word lost its spiritual sense in
ancient Greek glossa (Attic glotta) for tongue and speech,
apart from one aspect of glossolalia that means religious
utterings. GLO survived in Latin globus for round, English
globe, denoting the skull as ancient emblem of the sky,
wherefrom the shaman got his or her voices and made
them hear speaking in tongues. Consider the medieval
"deus est sphaera" - God is present in the perfect
geometrical body of the sphere. Furthermore, GLO
survived in Latin gloria, English glory: God in all his glory
speaking to the chosen one from amidst a fiery aureole,
in the case of Masesaya / Amun-Masesa / Moses from
a burning bush - a natural phenomenon occurring in the
Sinai, where a certain shrub grows very hard seeds only
fire can crack, so when the time for a new generation
has come the leafs of the shrub release an inflammable
gas that is kindled by the spark of the next stone that
comes a-rolling and pounding ... The papal "urbi et orbi"
is meant for Rome, center of Christendom, and for the
whole world, the entire globe. Michelangelo designed
a splendid cupola for the dome of the Vatican, gold
blazing everywhere, flaming along the spiraling Bernini
columns, glory over glory ...

The inverse of glo is OLG, Magdalenian for holy,
surviving via Scandinavian in the given name Olga.

By the way: biological evolution follows the principle of
neoteny. Young forms are evolved, not the fully developed
adult ones. Consider this when studying the evolution of
language. Pondering each and every special case of a
fully developed language is not always helpful. Have my
chutzpa. Throw the books away. (Not really, of course;
I love books, and consult them over and over again.)




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

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