Re: what is etymology? (linguistics and biology)

Magdalenian traces in Minoan

Some of my Magdalenian words have an onomatopoetic
origin, for example MUC for bull or bison, MU- (pronounced
moo) for the lowing, ending -C for the massive and compact
body of the animal, as in PAC for horse, and PIC for game,
deer, ibex, boar.

By the end of the Magdalenium some tribes may have
wandered eastward, and arrived in southeastern Anatolia,
where they may have founded Goebekli Tepe, in use from
11 600 to 9 500 BP. Pillar 2 shows a proud bull, while
a bucranium is found on a narrow side of pillar 31,
one of the central pillars of the oval D.

Agriculture started some 10,000 years ago at the base
of the Karacadag east of Goebekli Tepe (where the oldest
forms of emmer had been detected by means of genetic
screening), and was fully developed in the Syrian Harran
plain just south of Goebekli Tepe in around 9 000 BP.

Haran / Harran is a famous place in the Bible. Abraham
went to Haran when he left Ur. Jacob was headed for
Haran. Not so far southwest of Harran is Aleppo, and
some fourty kilometers south of Aleppo Tell Mardukh,
Ebla, Minuth in the Bible, where the best wheat came
from. A tablet of Ebla shows a Minotaur among other
figures.

Cyrus H. Gordon identified Minoan, the language behind
the Linear A tablets of Crete, as a north-west semitic
language. Jan Best followed him. Also Walther Hinz,
who succeeded in translating the Linear A clay tablet
Hagia Triada 95 from an archive in the palace of Hagia
Triada in the fertile Mesara plain in southern Crete. One
side mentions Adu (Baal), the other side Dadumatha
(the one loved by Baal). The two sides give instructions
as to the sort and amount of cereals to be given to the
priests and priestesses of Adu and Dadumatha. Both
get their share of MI NU THE, fine wheat from Minuth
or Ebla in Syria. I had a closer look at the three signs
MI NU THE --- MI is represented by the head of a bull,
NU by a bull leaper, a visual pun, showing him standing
on the feet hands feet hands feet ..., THE by a Tree of
Life, a common symbol in Asia Minor. So the Minoans,
famous for their bull leaping sport, and Minuth in the
Bible, or Ebla, may be related to each other, and this
means the Mionans came from Syria, found a new
home in Crete, where they got in contact with Egyptian
hieroglyphs and developed a new form of writing, first
hieroglyphic, then Linear A, then Linear B. The name
in question can be found in all three versions (for more
information look up my thread on the Linear A tablet
Hagia Triada 95).

Hypothetical Magdalenian MUC may have survived in
Goebekli Tepe, then it would have become MUC Myc
My- Mi- in Minoan Crete, and MUC Myc- in Mykeane.
There is a beautiful bull head in Crete, and a similar one,
presumably by a Minoan artist, from a tomb at Mycenae,
which fortress may then have been the stronghold of the
Zeus bull ...

Next time: PAD, PAS; D-forms comparated in S-forms

Regards Franz Gnaedinger www.seshat.ch



SOM MOS SMO OMS MSO OSM

Also: I -- me, myself / je -- moi in French

SOM --- body; ancient Greek soma for body, life, person,
living being, individuum; main point, the whole; community

MOS --- offspring; ancient Greek moschos for offspring;
calf, young bull; boy, girl

SMO --- joy; ancient Greek asma for song, asmenos
for pleased, joyful, joyous, cheerful

OMS --- to find someone his or her equal, to fall in love;
ancient Greek homoios for equal, consider the biblical
"to recognize someone" for to make love, and for to
love - recognizing ones equal in someone else is the
wonder of love

MSO --- animated, living; ancient Greek empsychos
or animated and living

OSM --- fragrant; ancient Greek osmae for odor, fragrance

SOM and MOS are a fine example of Magdalenian inverse
forms. There are further symmetries: the joy I feel when
finding someone my equal, makes my heart sing; my love,
so animated and lively, resembling a fragrant flower, the
soul in a living being I love like the fragrance coming from
a flower ...

MSO for animated springs a surprise. Magdalenian M
would have become ancient Greek em- en- for inside,
within (a soul within the body). So it would have been
a humming M coming from the inside, pronounced
with the closed mouth, and may thus explain the
difference between English I and me myself, French
je and moi:

The English I is close to eye, French je close to yeux
for eyes, as explained in a previous message. The eyes
belong to the face, are part of the "interface" between
me and the world, me and the others, whereas M is
inside. Me myself moi live inside the house, so to speak,
while I and je look out the window, greeting a passing
person, or stand in the door, welcoming a visitor ...

Next time: traces of Magdalenian in Minoan



RAN NAR // TON RAN torran taran Taranis

AD DA // SAL LAS // AD LAS Atlas Atlantis

RAN --- a free, unhindered movement, of water and rivers
in a wide plain, of animals and humans; rain, rivers Rhone
and Rhine, Greek rheo, reindeers wandering across a tundra,
English run German rennen

NAR --- a hindered movement. Narrow: a narrow passage,
an obstacle in the way. Rivers like the Indian Narbado may
have been named fo a narrow passage. Narrare narrate
narrative narration: they saw each other, fell in love, married,
had children, and lived ever happily after - this would not be
a love story; from a pleasant or moving love story we expect
obstacles the lovers must overcome, and as an obstacle
in the way of a river shows the power of water, obstacles
in the way of lovers reveal the glory of true love ... Narcotic
substances numb the mind, or hinder at least some of the
brain's activities; ancient Greek narkos for numb. Greek
nardos for the spikenard oil or ointment: a vicous liquid,
not flowing as freely as water. Narcissism: the feelings
of love don't flow toward others, but are hold up and bent
back in self-admiration. Latin naris for nostrils: the narrow
passage between the lungs and the wide air-filled space
all around us ...

TON RAN may be Thunder Rain, thunder announcing rain,
Irish torran Welsh taran for thunder, Taranis the Celtic
thunder god

The rivers Don, Dneper / dnjeper, Dnester / Dnjester,
Donau / Danube may have been named for PAS TON,
Poseidon, while the Bulgarian name of the Danube,
Dunarea, keeps both words, TON and RAN.

AD --- toward // DA --- from, away from (as explained in
an earlier message)

SAL --- not firm, deep, swaying, for example the sea;
ancient Greek salos for swaying, especially of the sea

LAS --- firm and tall, for example a mountain; ancient
Greek laas for stone, rock, cliff, laxoos for carved in
stone

AD LAS --- Eurasian steppes around the Caspian and
Black Sea, oriented toward the Caucasian mountain range

CA SPA --- shoulder or pillar of the sky; Kasbek, central
peak of the Caucasus, 5087 m

PAS TON ---. Poseidon, the one who made himself heard
all over the earth; originally the river god, also the creator
of the horse, the father of Atlas who carried the heavens
on his shoulders, and the Earth Shaker, the founder of
Atlantis, and the one who destroyed Atlantis by means
of a flood wave. If Atlantis was the land oriented toward
the Caucasian mountain range, the Eurasian steppes
north of the Caspian and the Black Sea, AD (toward)
LAS (Caucasus), the the flood wave may have been
a tsunami, caused by an earthquake released from
the two tectonic plates that meet along the southern
shore of the Black Sea. The river names that preserve
Poseidon's name, from Don to Danube, mouth into the
Black Sea, so the flood wave must have occured there,
flowing from the sourhtern to the very shallow northern
shore, possible (second) home of the Indo-Europeans
(the first home may have been somewhere between
the Caucasus and the Altai, the latter being rich in
tin which was required for casting bronze).

Next time: SOM MOS OSM MSO SMO OMS

Then: traces of Magdalenian in Minoan

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