Re: what is etymology? (linguistics and biology)

DIG SIG, GID GIS

One year ago I proposed Magdalenian DIG for finger.
My new law of D-forms being comparated in S-forms (only
eight days old, and has already revealed a lot of new words)
predicts that SIG must have a related meaning, and must
be a comparative. Well, SIG survives in sign. Latin signum
and related words. Ancient Greek sigae for silence. From
these words we get a silent sign, a mute signal given by
means of fingers (DIG). Brahman raises his right hand,
his index and middle finger, and so does Christ. The
three founding fathers of Switzerland met on the Gruetli
meadow above Lake Lucerne and rose their right hand
each, middle finger, index and thumb, thus confirming
the confoederation of Uri, Schwyz and Nidwalden with
an oath that became a silent sign, just like the V-sign
for victory by the end of World War II. The G of SIG
is present in Latin signum, while the G of sigae is lost
from Latin sileo for I am quiet, silentium for silence.
The G of SIG is present in English signal, both in the
spoken and written form, lost in the spoken form of
sign, but still present in the written form, lost in seal.
German Zeichen for sign, here the G became an I,
while the G survived in Siegel for seal.

My law of the inverse Magdalenian form from last year
says that inverses have related meanings. When DIG
means finger, GID must have a finger-related meaning,
which is quite easily found: give and get, give something
or take something with the hands, German geben for to
give, imperative gib, English gift for something given for
free, as a present. A father may give his daughter to her
lover with a blessing, raising his right hand and fingers.
Or he may not give his daughter to the young man,
instead curse and menace him by raising his fist, not
showing the fingers, just the fist.

Now my new law of the D-form comparated in the S-form
says that GID must be comparated in GIS. Ancient Greek
kis for box, chest, German Kiste for chest, English gist
for the real or main points or substance. You can give
little with your hands, you can give more with a bag,
a chest, a container. I could give you one apple with
my hand, hundred apples in a box ...

The inverse of GIS, namely SIG, was explained above.
My law of the inverse form from last year says that the
meaning of GIS must be related to the meaning of SIG
for sign, a silent sign. Easy: GIS was a signed bag or
box or chest or container, and it was signed and sealed
by applying color with a finger ...

Next time: still more D-forms and comparated S-forms

Regards Franz Gnaedinger www.seshat.ch



DOM SOMm, MOD MmOS
DMO SMmO, OMD OMmS
MDO MmSO, ODM OSMm

The double m given as Mm is a humming m, counting
for one letter. The six permutations of D - O - M are
words concerning a Magdalenian camp, while the six
permutations of S - O - Mm concern a Magdalenian
tribe, the people living in a camp. Inverse forms have
closely related meanings. D-forms are comparated
in S-forms. And there may again be an onomatopoetic
word (SMmO).

DOM --- a Magdalenian camp; ancient Greek domos for
house, building, flat, chamber, hall of men, household,
family, house of the father, layer (of stones and bricks)

SOMm --- a Magdalenian, a group of Magdalenians,
a Magdalenian tribe, the dwellers of a camp; ancient
Greek soma for body, life, person, human being,
individuum, main point, the whole, community

MOD --- a part of a camp; Latin modulus, English
module

MmOS --- offspring; ancient Greek moskhos for sprout,
rod, offspring, calf, young bull, boy, girl

DMO --- maintaining a camp on the material level,
activities going on in the various parts of a camp;
ancient Greek themo for to effect, to cause, to bring
about

SMmO --- maintaing a camp on the human level,
recreation, celebrating a feast, singing and dancing,
falling in love, making love, procreation - may be of
an onomatopoetic origin, indicating a kiss, a smack;
ancient Greek asmos for song, asmenos for pleased,
joyful, joyous, cheerful

OMD --- multitude, many people; ancient Greek
homados for noise, bustle, multitude

OMmS --- among equals, among people one belongs
to, likes, cares for, and loves, recognizes as ones
equals, consider also the biblical to recognize someone
as formula for to fall in love, to make love; ancient Greek
homoios for equal

MDO --- to administer a Magdalenian camp; ancient
Greek medo for I think, care, administer, rule, medon
for adviser, ruler

MmSO --- animated, lively, living, having a soul; ancient
Greek empsychos for animated, having a soul (from em-
the humming Mm, indicating the soul within, surviving
in the intitial sounds of English me myself, French moi
(while English I and French je are oriented toward the
outside --- me and myself live inside the house, so
to speak, while I and je look out a window, greeting
a passerby, or stand in the door, welcoming a guest)

ODM --- odor coming from a camp fire or a cooking pit;
ancient Greek odmae for odor, fragrance

OSMm --- fragrance coming from the body of a person,
a lover; ancient Greek osmae for odor, fragrance

Next time: more D-forms comparated in S-forms




DAI SAI, IAD IAS; IDA ISA, ADI ASI; DIA SIA, AID AIS

DAI --- protected area; ancient Greek tegos for roof,
ceiling, chamber, room, German Dach French toit for
roof, French dais for canopy. DAI may be represented
by rectangles, "signes tectiformes" in the terminology
of Michel Lorblanchet

SAI --- life; ancient Greek zoae for life, life span, way
of life, maintenance, wealth, what one got. SAI may be
represented by lines and fields of dots, blown and spat
on the wall the way Michel Lorblanchet demonstrated
when copying a panel from Pech-Merle (Aurigniacian-
Périgordian). Lorblanchet says that breath and warm
spittle added a magic quality to a painting, gave it life.
Moreover, spittle has an antiseptic effect, animals lick
their wounds, and shamans may have chewed some
herbs and used their spittle for a medicine in order to
heal someone, maintain and prolong a life. SAI may
be of an onomatopoetic origin, imitating the sound of
spitting - either color on a wall, or a medicine on the
skin; hunting accidents and injuries therefrom must
have been rather frequent

IAD --- healer; ancient Greek iataer for medicine,
iatreuo for I am a doctor

IAS --- healing; ancient Greek iasos for healing

IDA --- glad, for example when a cure helps; female
given name Ida from a Germanic word meaning happy

ISA --- free, healed from an illness, made whole again,
being well and functioning, equal to the other members
of a tribe; ancient Greek _is_ for sinew, muscle, nerf,
strength, power, isazo for to make equal, isagoria for
the equal right of speech, for equal rights in general,
civil freedom

ADI --- noble, wealthy; female given name Ada from
a Germanic word meaning noble

ASI --- honor, dignity; ancient Greek axia for dignity,
reputation, authority

DIA --- through, seeing through, finding the true origin
of an illness; ancient Greek dia for through, diagnosis

SIA --- to live well and in good health; ancient Greek
zaeo for I live, am still living, am leading a life, am
able to maintain my life, am neither weak nor feeble,
have my strength, live on, flourish

AID --- origin, to help and heal by finding the origin of
an illness; ancient Greek aitia for origin, reason ...,
English etiology / aetiology for the study of the causes
of diseases, French aider for to help

AIS --- fate; ancient Greek aisa for fate

I explained the D-words in a previous message, now
I added S-words as comparatives. Note the inverses
among the new S-forms. They have again related
meanings, for example IAS and SAI ...

Next time: DOM SOMM, MOD MMOS; DMO SMMO,
OMD OMMS; MDO MMSO, ODM OSMM (double m
a humming m)

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