Re: what is etymology? (linguistics and biology)

PAI IAP, PIA AIP, IPA API --- recreation, regeneration
ZAI IAZ, ZIA AIZ, IZA AZI --- food, medicine

PAI --- zone of recreation and regeneration; ancient
Greek paizo for I play, joke, enjoy, dance, sing, paidia
for game, joke, entertainement, pais for child, paidmo
for I teach, educate, paian for rescuer, savior, healer

IAP --- to throw pebbles and sticks at a target, to learn
how to hunt by playing such games (in the case of boys),
to regain forces by playing such games (in the case of
injured hunters); ancient Greek iapto for I throw, send,
sling, hit (...)

PIA --- vigor; ancient Greek bia for force, power, strength
(...)

AIP --- quick; ancient Greek aiphnidos for suddenly,
aipsa for quick, immediately

IPA --- to hit a target from near and below; ancient
greek hypo (many meanings)

API --- to hit a target from above and farther away;
ancient Greek apo (many meanings)

ZAI --- zone of food; ancient Greek zeidoros for
spending food, zeira for mantel (perhaps the hide
used for laying out a cooking pit, whereupon it was
filled with water and food, then hot stones were
rolled into the pit and made the water simmer and
boil)

IAZ --- to cook herbs for medical purposes; ancient
Greek iataer for medicine, iasis for healing (consider
the magic cauldron of a druid)

ZIA --- to cook a meal; ancient Greek zeo for I boil (...)

AIZ --- to share a meal, or one's share of a meal;
ancient Greek aisa for share (...)

IZA --- to sit around a fire or a cooking pit and eat;
ancient Greek izo for I sit, I seat (people)

AZI --- heat and ashes from a fire; ancient Greek
aza for heat, dirt, azo for I dry

Regards Franz Gnaedinger www.seshat.ch



LAI IAL, LIA AIL, ILA ALI --- gathering materials for a camp
RAI IAR, RIA AIR, IRA ARI --- final works, consecration

LAI --- materials for building a camp. stones, pebbles,
clay, poles, branches, twigs, bark, grass, reed, hides,
water; ancient Greek lainos for out of stone, laigx for
pebble, laisaeon for a shield made of hides, leiphos
for cloth (would then have been hides), lainos for neck
(giving the narrow and weak entrance zone special
attention), leia for prey, especially of cattle, leimon
for meadow, pasture (where grass and reed can be
found), laitma for depth, especially of the sea, leima
for I let flow, make flow (...) (indicating ditches and
cooking pits)

IAL --- works involving these materials, to send out
people gathering them, stretching hides over poles,
deposit the various materials on the camp site;
ancient Greek iallo for I send out, stretch out,
throw, throw at

LIA ---to make a camp save, very save; ancient Greek
lian for very, completely

AIL --- protection; ancient Greek eilar for protection,
eileo for I close up (...), eilyma for cover, eilyo for
I cover

ILA --- to lay out a fence of intertwined thorn branches,
to dig ditches; ancient Greek elauno for I trace a wall
or a ditch (...)

ALI --- a fence of intertwined thorn branches, also
ditches, protecting a camp; ancient Greek alysis for
chain, protection

RAI --- final works of camp building, to remove sharp
edges and corners of rock, to smooth a clay floor
with water, to cover a floor with bark, twigs, hay, reed,
hides, to rest (when the hard work is done); ancient
Greek rhaistaen for hammer, rhaino for I sprinkle, sprew,
asperse, rhaizo for I get easy, rest

IAR --- to consecrate a camp, perhaps the entrance,
and other special parts of a camp; ancient Greek hieros
for holy, sacred

RIA --- exclamation: makes my blod flow, makes me feel
alive ...; ancient Greek rheo for I flow

AIR --- to raise the arms in joy; ancient Greek airo for
I raise

IRA --- pleased; ancient Greek aera for pleasing (...)

ARI --- good, perfect; ancient Greek ari- of about this
meaning (would have been the origin of Aryan)




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

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