Re: what is etymology? (linguistics and biology)

ROP POR, PRO ORP, OPR RPO

When I am in a Magdalenian mood I pick three letters,
do the six permutations, arrange them in three pairs
of inverses, consult my rather small but very fine
Langenscheidt dictionary of ancient Greek, and look
whether I can find six words around the same meme,
whereby inverse forms must be closely related to each
other. In the case of R - I - P the meme is fire. PIR fire,
inverse RIP wind fanning the flames, fan, bellows, to fan,
while the remaining four words denote the way the smoke
behaves: IRP creeping smoke, inverse PRI turning smoke
(peri), RPI sinking smoke, inverse IPR ascending smoke
(hyper).

Yesterday I considered the permutations of R - O - P
and found club for the meme of the six words. ROP club,
inverse POR handle, while the four remaining words tell
how to move a club:

ROP --- club; ancient Greek ropalon for club, cudgel, stick,
throwing stick of a herdsman, knocker on a door

POR --- handle of a club; ancient Greek porpax for the
handle of a shield, porkaes for pincers, ring, Latin porto
for I carry, French porter for to carry

PRO --- to raise a club and hit a target in front; ancient
Greek pro for forward

ORP --- to move a club sideward, swing it around, spin
and move a club round about; ancient Greek orpaea for
branch - not just forward, in one direction, but in another
direction, branching off from the main direction, sideward;
Latin orbus for circle

OPR --- to move a club in every which way; ancient Greek
oper osper for whichever, Latin opera for work, effort,
activity (...), operosus for active, effective, laborius, artful

RPO --- to let a club sink; ancient Greek rhepo for I incline,
bow; French repos for rest comes to mind, Latin re-pono
for I lay back

May the initial R- of RPO be an early form of re, as in re-ply?
Let us look at the case of fire, PIR. There we have RPI for
sinking smoke: smoke ascending and then returning to the
ground. So may there be a further rule? R + consonant being
Re, as in re-turn? Will check this.

Regards Franz Gnaedinger www.seshat.ch



CA PAD David / DA IEL Daniel / DA LIL Delila / PRI Brian

DA PAD --- away from activity of feet, delivered from the paw
of the lion, delivered from the paw of the bear, delivered from
the hand of Goliath, delivered from the paw of that brutish
and towering Philistine, Da pad David

LEI ---- attacked by a lion; ancient Greek leo for lion,
leiano for I bruise, crash, destroy, leia for prey

IEL --- to yell when ones sees a lion (onomatopoetic),
to yell when attacking a lion with stones and spears;
ancient Greek iaelo for I send, throw, throw at (...),
iacho for I shout, yell

EIL --- to hide from a lion; ancient Greek eilyo for I cover
up, creep, cower, crouch (...)

LIE --- to escape a lion; ancient Greek liazomai for to
escape (...)

ILE --- being spared by the lion; ancient Greek ilaeo for
I have merci (...)

ELI --- resting, thanking for having been spared and saved;
ancient Greek elinyo for I rest, give up (...), Hebrew Eli for
Lord, the one who can save you

DA IEL --- away from yelling. When Daniel was cast into
the lion's den, an angel came and shut the lion's mouth,
Daniel was spared, he had not to yell and attack the lions.
Before, Daniel saved the wise men of Babylon and himself
from the clubs and spears of Arioch, the king's captain.
The Lord saved Daniel twice, he judged him (meaning of
the Hebrew name: the Lord is my judge), found him worthy,
and saved him twice

-: I -: (pronounce the consonant given as -: by touching
the lips with the tip of the tongue) for desire; became LIL
LIB BIB DID; ancient Greek lilazo for I desire, crave, may
survive in libido, became Latin bibere for to drink (thurst
being a mighty desire), Ugaritic DD for loved, beloved
(Cyrus H. Gordon), Minoan Dadu for loved by (Walther
Hinz), Phoneician / Carthaginian Dido for loved one

DE LIL --- away from desire, satisfied; meaning of the
Hebrew name Dalila or Delila: she who craves. Delila
in the Bible wished to know the secret of Samson's
power and strength, he fooled her three times, but then
he gave away his true secret, and so her wish to know
was finally satisfied

PIR --- fire; ancient Greek pyr for fire

RIP --- wind fanning a fire; ancient Greek ripazo for I fan
(perhaps onomatopoetic for the sound a fan or a leather
bellows make)

IRP --- creeping smoke; ancient Greek herpo for I creep
(...)

PRI --- turning smoke; ancient Greek peri for round about
(...)

RPI --- descending smoke; ancient Greek repo for I sink
(...)

IPR --- raising smoke; ancient Greek hyper for beyond (...)

PRI and IPR survive in peri and hyper, words we still use.
Peri is present in the name of Perikles, ruler of Athens
in its heyday, perhaps also in Brian, while pi from Greek
periphery became the symbol of the number of the circle.




SA RAA // Magdalenian constallation of SA CER (sa ker)

A couple of weeks ago I proposed AD and DA for toward
and away from. Nine days ago I found my law of D-forms
comparated in S-forms. If this law holds, AD and DA must
have comparatives. Here is what I found:

AD / AS --- toward / upward
DA / SA --- away from / downward

Hebrew Sara means princess. If the lovely name had
a Magdalenian root, it may well have been SA RAA:

AAR --- air (onomatopoetic, inhaling)
RAA --- light, Latin radiare for to shine; radiant, ray
ARA --- space, filled with air, medium of light

SA RAA --- downward light, a sun beam breaking through
the clouds and shining on the chosen one, hence princess,
the one chosen by the Lord

SA RAA could be the origin of Latin sol for solis, radiare
for to shine, surviving in English radiant and ray, also the
origin of the Egyptian sun god Ra. Years ago I read that
Sahara means: Sea of Sand. Might be folk etymology.
The Magdalenian root may be SA RAA, the sun shining
down on an arid waste. Sara the wife of Abraham (whose
name is an example of folk etymology in the Bible) was
barren for a long time, then she was blessed by the Lord
and given a son, which may symbolize the desert as birth
place of the Jewish religion.

One year ago I proposed CER (pronounced ker) as word
for the stag, which animal, I believe, was the emblem of
the shaman. Combining SA and CER yields SA CER,
reminding of Latin sacer for sacred. SA CER, downward
stag -- does this make sense? May there have been a
heavenly stag inspiring the shamans? Have a look at the
red horse and the white bull running along in the rotunda
of the Lascaux cave:

www.seshat.ch/home/menhir6e.JPG

Marie E.P. Koenig interprets the horse as symbol of the
sun, the bull as symbol of the moon, and the niche at
the far end of the axial gallery, where the horse comes
down and gives way to a pair of opposing ibices (ibexes)
as midwinter. From the latter I conclude that the glorious
rotunda symbolizes midsummer. In front of the bull are
a group of stags. In the above picture you see just one
of them, in front of the bull, small, and in a lower position.
If you have a close look you'll see that one antler overlaps
the mouth of the bull -- one end overlapping the upper lip,
the other end overlapping the lower lip. The opposing bull
(not seen on the above picture) got his nuzzle touched and
overlapped by another antler (no animal, just an antler), so
the overlapping can't be a mere coincidence, it must be well
considered and deliberate. Sun and moon follow the band of
the ecliptic. Now is there a summer constellation at a suiting
position, under the ecliptic, touching the band of the ecliptic,
resembling antlers of a stag? Yes, there is, when you combine
Sagittus and Scorpio! So this was the heavenly stag SA CER
(sa ker), a Magdalenian constellation, inspiration for shamans
who observed the moon and the sun. Note also that the sacred
Magdalenian constellation SA CER (sa ker) appears before the
Milky Way. Follow the Milky Way upward and you get to the
Summer Triangle Atair - Deneb - Lyra, where the ruler of a tribe
was reborn (if he was found worthy of getting a second life).
So the shaman CER (ker) must have played a role in the
communication among the earthly ruler and his precursors on
the sky via the mediation of the heavenly stag SA CER (sa ker),
and he must have helped a ruler to get a second life among the
stars of the Summer Triangle.

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