Re: what is etymology? (linguistics and biology)

CA LAB, CA BEL, CA BAL // PAC (Magdalenian horse)

The contribution by Martin E. Huld, "An Albanian Reflex
of Proto-Indo-European *Eekuo-s 'Horse' " (in: Proceedings
of the Fifteenth Annual UCLA Indo-European Conference,
Los Angeles, November 7-8, 2003; Journal of Indo-European
Monograph Series, No. 49; Institute for the Study of Man,
Washington, DC, 2004) made me have another go at the
Magdalenian words for horse. Last year I proposed

CA LAB --- sky cold, winter sun horse
CA BEL --- sky warm, sun horse of spring and fall
CA BAL --- sky hot, summer sun horse

CA LAB CA LAB CA LAB CA LAB ...
CA BEL CA BEL CA BEL CA BEL ...
CA BAL CA BAL CA BAL CA BAL ...

wherefrom gallop, and Latin caballus for horse (the
Latin dictionary Bianca kindly lent me says that the
etymology of caballus has not yet been established).

This year I proposed PAC for horse. Now for the group
of six permutations, words around _horse hunting_:

PAC --- horse

CAP --- a group of horse hunters; Latin capio for
I capture

APC --- to divert, deroute and separate horses in order
to drive them into an enclosure, or over a cliff; several
ancient Greek words of the form ap(o)-k-, for example
apokineo for I move away (...), apokleo for I derive,
deroute (...), apokrineo for I separate (...)

CPA --- to attack and kill horses; ancient Greek kopae
for beating, slaughter, defeat, submission

ACP --- infatigable; ancient Greek akopos for infatigable

PCA --- to end a horse hunt; Latin pacatus for quieted,
peaceful

In these words we find the negatives A- and AP- (apo),
furthermore the possible origin of Latin pax for peace,
namely the end of a horse hunt, the end of the melée
of a horse slaughter in an enclosure.

My way of following Magdalenian words into our
languages: I pronounce them silently, without giving
voice, over and over again, and consider what happens:

pac pac pac pac pac ...

.... pac opap opec epec ec

Latin equus for horse, Old Irish ech for horse

.... pac apac opac ipoc hipos

Ancient Greek hippos for horse, Gaulish Epo, Epona
the horse goddess; Greek hippos a merger with IPR
hyper Hyperion, the sun ascending and traversing the
sky (IPR originally for ascending smoke)

.... pac apac aspec aspa asva

Old Persian Aspacanah (Aspa-canah) for he who loves
horses, Old Indian Asavasena for he who has an army
of horses, Bhradasva for he who has mighty horses

.... pac apagd apard paard Pferd

Dutch paard for horse, German Pferd for horse

.... pac opac ospac hospa hosa horse aros Ross

German Ross, English horse

Horses retired from the Guyenne and survived in the
Eurasian steppes. Magdalenian hunters followed them,
and Indo-Europeans domesticated them. The original
word PAC meant the wild horse, while our words name
domesticated and breeded horses, which allows for
some distance between the hypothetical Magdalenian
PAC and the words we use nowadays.

The Magdalenians were hunters, they killed horses,
bisons, stags --- and honored them by placing them
on the sky, the horse as the sun horse CA LAB, CA BEL,
CA BAL, the bison as the moon bull CA LUN (inverse NUL
for the new moon, or rather emtpy moon), the stag as the
constellation of CER (ker, combining our Sagittarius and
Scorpio into a pair of stag antlers).

Next time: the divine stag CER (Sagittarius + Scorpio),
the pair of opposing ibices (Orion), and how the shaman
CER AC became Herakles ...

Regards Franz Gnaedinger www.seshat.ch



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.



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.

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