Re: what is etymology? (linguistics and biology)
- From: "Franz Gnaedinger" <frgn@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: 10 Apr 2006 00:59:54 -0700
PhAI IAPh, PhIA AIPh, IPhA APhI --- spending the night
in a camp
ChAI IACh, ChIA AICh, IChA AChI --- weather (not noise
as I earlier assumed)
PhAI --- beauty of a well built camp, the shining hides
of the tents and huts greeting returning hunters from afar,
welcoming them home; ancient Greek phaino for I shine
IAPh --- to enjoy life in a camp, feel safe, sleep in peace;
ancient Greek iauo for I spend the night, sleep, rest, enjoy
PhIA --- drinking a bowl of berry wine before sleeping;
ancient Greek phiala for drinking bowl
AIPh --- spending the night in a camp; ancient Greek
euphronae for night, euphraino for I enjoy, euprhosynea
for serenity, pleasure, joy
IPhA --- to wake up in the morning, refreshed, ones
powers fully restored; ancient Greek iphi for powerful,
with strength, ipthimos for strong, full of power, fit, brave
APhI --- to leave a camp in the morning; ancient Greek
aphesis for sending off, start (...), aphexis for going away
(...)
ChAI --- fine weather, sunshine; ancient Greek chairo
for I enjoy, chairon for glad, with pleasure, healthy
IACh --- thunderstorm; ancient Greek iacho for I shout,
roar, call loudly, make loud sounds, patter, pelt, rage,
also iakchazo for I jubilate
ChIA --- rain; ancient Greek cheo for I pour
AICh --- to enjoy good weather, sunshine, but also
rain in a dry period; ancient Greek euios for cheering,
shouting (of joy), exult, Latin aio pronounced aijo for
I say yes
IChA --- getting dry; ancient Greek ichano for I dry up
AChI --- swelling water, a brook or a river filled with rain,
a swelling mountain river rushing down a gorge; ancient
Greek agineo for I lead, acompany, bring, bring by,
age for let us go, move on, Latin agilis for mobile, agile,
quick (...)
AChI LEI --- swelling river, attacking lion: a lion attacking
with the force of a swelling mountain river, rushing down
a gorge like a tsunami on land, a quickly moving wall
of water, origin of the name Achilleus
Homer made comparisons between rivers and water.
Consider for example the talking river Xanthos. Xanthos
was a range of colors: yellow, brown, auburn, red. These
are the hues of copper ores. The talking and complaining
river Xanthos actually means the Trojan army clad in
armors walking along the river. At the begin of book XII
of the Iliad, Zeus makes it rain for nine days, while Apollo
and Poseidon fling the united waters of the Trojan rivers
against the wall of the Achaeans (anticipating a flood
occurring after the end of the Trojan war), which parallels
Hector's storm at the Greek wall by the end of book XII:
"and hell was broke loose." Achilleus may have been
modeled after a mountain river tsunami, he was idling
for a long time, then suddenly he was swelling up,
infuriated by the death of his friend Patroklos, attacked
the Trojans with the force of a mountain river tsunami
filled by a summer rain, and was doomed in the end,
as such a swelling mountain river soon dyes away,
afterward you can hardly imagine how such a brook
could develop such devastating force.
Regards Franz Gnaedinger www.seshat.ch
MAI IAM, MIA AIM, IMA AMI --- zone of women
TAI IAT, TIA AIT, ITA ATI --- clothes
MAI --- zone of women; ancient Greek maia for little
mother, midwife, maimao for I desire very much, Latin
Maja or Majja for the goddess of the earth
IAM --- pleasure, comfort, relief and healing a hunter
found in the female zone of the camp; ancient Greek
iama for remedy, healing
MIA --- a girl or young woman reaching sexual maturity;
ancient Greek miaio for I color, taint, dye, stain (...)
referring to the menstruation blood, Latin Mia for one
of the three gracces
AIM --- (menstruation) blood; ancient Greek haima for
blood, sex, life, force (...)
IMA --- love; ancient Greek himeiro for I long, desire,
wish, himerois for lovely, charming, sweet, longing,
touching, himeros for longing, desire, love, charm
AMI --- friend; Latin amica amicus
TAI --- clothes, made of stripes of hides (fur and leather);
ancient Greek tainia for ribbon, tainioo for I adorn with
ribbons
IAT --- stripes of fine leather used for winding around
a wound, for healing purposes; ancient Greek iataer
for medicine, doctor
TIA --- headgear of a ruler; ancient Greek tiara
AIT --- to ask a ruler for one's share in hides in order
to make clothes; ancient Greek aiteo for I ask, request,
aitia for share
ITA --- young animals, providing hides, fur and fine leather,
became the word for calf in later pastorial communities;
ita a word root for young
ATI --- grown up animals, providing hides, fur and leather,
became a word for bull in later pastoral communities;
Etruscan athi for bull
ATI CA --- bull sky, heavenly bull, Attika ruled by the
Zeus bull
ITA CA --- calf sky, sons of the Zeus bull, Peloponnes,
old name preserved in the name of the island of Ithaka.
In Homer, Odyssey IX 19ff, Odysseus calls himself son
of Laertes, his fame has reached the heavens, he lives
in the island of Ithaka in the far west, an island nurturing
very fine young men ... The lineage was Zeus Arkeisios
Laertes Odysseus Telemachos. As rulers they were sons
and grandsons of Zeus, and since Zeus was a heavenly
bull, they were heavenly calves. The Peloponnes lies in
the west of the Indo-European homeland, and the ones
who reached the Peoloponnes came via Attika
ITA LIA --- calf, safe very safe (see a previous post),
land where the calves were safely protected, well guarded,
so there were plenty calves, Italia Italy originally the name
of the southern part of the "boot," famed as land of many
calves. Vitulus for calf would then be a later overforming
of ITA. Having now access to the old words makes the
explanation of Italia much easier.
Regards Franz Gnaedinger www.seshat.ch
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
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