Re: what is etymology? (linguistics and biology)
- From: "Franz Gnaedinger" <frgn@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: 5 Apr 2006 00:21:24 -0700
NAI IAN, NIA AIN, INA ANI; KAI IAK, KIA AIK, IKA AKI
NAI --- to find a good place for a Magdalenian camp;
ancient Greek niao for I dwell, live, settle
IAN --- to mark the place where the entrance of a camp
will be; the Roman god Janus personified an entrance,
door, archway
NIA ---exclamation: let us build a camp here, it is
a good place ...; ancient Greek nae for yes, verily,
nae Dia for 'by Zeus'
AIN --- to praise the place of a new camp; ancient
Greek aineo for I praise, extol, recommend, ainae
for praise, fame, esteem, reputation
INA --- there, let us build a camp there; ancient Greek
inae for there, where
ANI --- soul of a place, perhaps the souls of people
who had camped at the same place before; Latin
animus for soul
KAI --- to build a good camp; ancient Greek kairos
for right measure (...) - for further kai-words look up
my previous message
IAK --- to be pleased about a good camp; ancient
Greek iakkhazo for I cheer, exult, jubilate
KIA --- exclamation: makes my heart jump of joy ...;
ancient Greek kea for heart
AIK --- shining; ancient Greek aeglaeis for shining
IKA --- plenty of everything needed for a good camp;
ancient Greek hikanos for plenty, sufficient
AKI --- to lead the building of a camp; ancient Greek
agineo for I lead, guide, bring, bring by
Regards Franz Gnaedinger www.seshat.ch
Announcing a new mechanism of Magdalenian word
forming: lateral associations
DAI SAI NAI KAI LAI RAI PAI ZAI MAI TAI PhAI KhAI
--- a good Magdalenian camp, enjoy life therein
Provisional interpretations of the new words and their
inverse forms (will later be tested by means of the six
permutations of each new word)
DAI --- protected area, Magdalenian camp (explained
earlier), represented by rectangles on cave walls
SAI --- life and existence, to live and be (explained
earlier), represented by dots, lines of dots and fields
of dots on cave walls
NAI --- to find a site for a camp; ancient Greek naio
for I dwell, live, settle
Inverse IAN --- entrance of a camp; the Roman god
Janus personified a door, entrance, archway
KAI --- to make a good camp; ancient Greek kairos
for right measure, good proportion, favorable place,
right moment in time, good opportunity (...), kainos
for new (a new camp), kaio for I kindle, burn down
(to burn down bushes in order to get more building
space), kaino for I kill (snakes and other animals
one doesn't want in a camp, also a bear in a cave),
kaireos for well chained (surrounded and protected
by well interlinked thorn branches), kainymai for to
excel (in making a good camp)
Inverse IAK --- joy about a good and save camp;
ancient Greek iakkhazo for I cheer, exult, jubilate
LAI --- materials needed for building a camp; ancient
Greek laineos for out of stone, laingx for pebble, laismae
for a shield made of hides, laiphos for cloth (would have
been hides), lailaps for storm (fix everything well so that
a camp can withstand a storm), laimos for neck (give
special attention to the narrow and vulnerable entrance),
laitma for depth, especially of the sea (to dig ditches for
water, pits for cooking - a cooking pit was laid out with
a hide, filled with water, then food, then hot stones were
rolled into the pit, making the water simmer and boil)
Inverse IAL --- to gather materials, and to cover the
structures of a camp; ancient Greek iallo for I send,
send out (people to gather all kinds of materials),
stretch out (hides over poles, for walls and ceiling
of a hut), throw (pebbles and branches into a camp,
for further use there), throw at (clay at the basis of
a hut)
RAI --- final works in building a camp; ancient Greek
raistaes for hammer (pounding away sharp corners
and edges of rocks), rhaino for I sprew, sprinkle (to
smooth a clay floor with water, cover it by means of
pebbles, branches, twigs, leafs, dry grass, hides),
rhaizo for I relax (when the work is done)
Inverse IAR --- to consecrate a camp; ancient Greek
hieros for sacred ((in this case, hieros wouldn't be
a derivation of CER AS, as I proposed in the previous
message, CER AS would have become heros, hero)
PAI --- zone of recreation and regeneration; ancient
Greek paizo for I play, joke, enjoy myself, dance, sing,
paidia for game, joke, entertainment, pais for child,
paideuo for I teach, educate, paian for rescuer, savior,
healer
Inverse IAP --- to throw pebbles and sticks at a target,
learning how to hunt by playing such games; ancient
Greek japho for I send, throw, sling
ZAI --- zone of food; ancient Greek zeaidoros for
spending food, zeira for mantle (perhaps referring to
the hide laid out inside a cooking pit)
Inverse IAZ --- here I would expect a word for cooking,
didn't find one for the time being (have ancient Greek iz
for to sit, Latin iaceo for the rest, for example at a table
eating, but these words belong to the permutation IZA)
MAI --- zone of women; ancient Greek maimao for
I desire very much, maia for little mother, midwife,
Latin Maja or Majja for the Great Goddess
Inverse IAM --- pleasure, comfort, relief and healing
a Magdalenian hunter found in the female zone of
a camp; ancient Greek iama for medicine, healing
TAI --- ribbons used to mark the zones of a camp;
ancient Greek tainia for ribbon
Inverse IAT --- ribbons used for covering a wound;
ancient Greek iataer for doctor
PhAI --- beauty of a well built and kept Magdalenian
camp; ancient Greek phaino for I make visible, for
to shine, phaidros for serene, phaidimos for shining,
famous
Inverse IAPh --- to enjoy life in a good camp, feel
secure and save, sleep in piece; ancient Greek iauo
for I spend the night, sleep, rest, enjoy
KhAI --- to enjoy life in a Magdalenian camp; ancient
Greek khairo for I enjoy
Inverse IAKh --- noise in a camp, made by all the busy
people; ancient Greek iakho for I shout, roar, call loudly,
make loud sounds, crackle, rage, iakkhazo for I cheer,
exult, jubilate (see KAI and inverse IAK)
Next messages: pondering the permutations of the new
Magdalenian words
From the Magdalenian shaman to Herakles
CER --- divine stag, constellation of Sagittarius and Scorpio
as the antlers of the divine stag, rising on the sky in a summer
night, descending to the Underworld in a winter night / divine
hind-woman flanked by a pair of opposing ibices (midwinter
symbol according to Marie E.P. Koenig), rising on the sky
in a winter night, descending to the Underworld in a summer
night
CER CA or CER ACCA --- hind sky or hind earth-with-water
sky, divine hind licking animals into life, especially the moon
bull (see the hinds in the Altamira cave), primeval moon bull
present in the Hyads with Aldebaran in Taurus? CER CA or
CER ACCA origin of Hera?
CER AC --- stag earth-with-water, hind earth-with-water, title
of both of a he-shaman and she-shaman, became Herakles
who was both a man and a woman, see the bronze Herakles
from Shirakavan, Armenia (Gregory E. Areshian, "Herakles,
the Sun-God-Archer, Tyr, and Kerberos," Proceedings of the
Fifteenth Annual UCLA Conference, Los Angeles, November
7-8, 2003; Journal of Indo-European Monograph Series, No 49,
Institute for the Study of Man, Washington, DC, 2004)
CER PIR --- stag fire, divine stag protecting the entrance to
and exit from the Underworld with fires, became the hellhound
Kerberos guarding the Hades by means of his fiery breath
CER MAS --- stag chief, arch-shaman, represented by the
giant stag megaceros (two male animals and a female one
drawn in the Cougnac cave), may have stolen fire from the
CER PIR and given it to early humans, became Hermaes,
messenger of the gods, guider of souls, traveling all the way
from Mount Olympus to the Hades, also god of thieves
CER AC CLE --- became Herakles, whose labors may tell us
more about the Magdalenian shaman, verbal information may
be provided by the permutations of CEL (kel):
CEL --- divine stag (Sagittarius-Scorpio), divine hind-woman
(Orion) guiding the sun horse and moon bull along the sky,
from east to west, where they are visible, and along the river
in the Underwolrd, from west to east, where they are invisible;
ancient Greek keleutha for way, trajectory, path, keleuma for
order, command, call, keleuo for I drive, impel, charge, advice,
request, allow, *kel- for hidden
LEC --- the shaman observing the celestial bodies, a chosen
one, gifted in special ways, able to understand the heavenly
rhythms, compiling a lunisolar calendar, making use of it,
explaining it to aspriring shamans; ancient Greek lektos for
elected, sayable, lego for I gather, add, say, speak, lecture,
interpret, report, name, explain, request, lektikos for eloquent
CLE --- famous; ancient Greek kleinos for famous, present
in the name of Herakles
ELC --- shining ornament worn by a shaman; ancient Greek
aelectron for amber, and for the natural alloy of silver and gold,
golden solar disks from the Crimea
ECL --- the arch-shaman as judge; ancient Greek egklaema
for reproach, accusation, charge, grievance, complaint, cause
LCE --- a verdict; ancient Greek lakeo laeko lasko for I sound,
make loud noise, cry, bark, pronounce, announce, promulgate,
utter, say
SA CER --- downward stag/hind, primeval shaman born by
the divine hind-woman present in Orion? if so still visible in
Sirius. SA CER would have become Latin sacer for sacred
CER AS --- stag/hind upward, a worthy shaman ascending to
his heavenly abode in Sagittarius and Scorpio, to her heavenly
abode in Orion? became ancient Greek hieros for sacred, holy,
also heros for hero -- one duty of a shaman was to oppose bad
rulers, a heroic task, which is one of the reasons why Heracles
was worshipped as protector
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