Re: what is etymology? (linguistics and biology)

TOM MOT, OTM MTO, OMT TMO --- hides
ChAR RACh, ChRA ARCh, ARCh ChRA --- fence

TOM - stone knive; ancient Greek tomae for cut

MOT --- to cut and clean a hide with a stone knive;
Latin moto for I move back and forth

OTM --- hide, so named for the special smell of fur
and leather; ancient Greek odmae osmae for odor
and fragrance (c.f. ODM OSM)

MTO --- to knead wet hides in order to make the
leather soft; ancient Greek matto masso for I knead,
English massage

OMT --- hides as raw material for making clothes,
belts, baldrics, covers, tent walls, and so on; ancient
Greek omos for raw, crude, fresh (...), omotaes for
roughness

TMO --- treasurer of hides; ancient Greek tamaias
for treasurer

ChAR --- poles for making tents or hut, also for the
fence around a camp, fence poles may have been
decorated with figurines carved in wood, as elegant
as the figurines carved in ivory and stone, although
long lost; ancient Greek charax for pole, palisade,
charis for grace, Charis one of the Graces (a figurine
carved from the top of a fence pole, then)

RACh --- intertwined thorn branches between the
fence poles, warding off and holding away animals;
ancient Greek rachos for thorn shrub, hedge

ChRA --- to ward off (purpose of the fence); ancient
Greek chraismeo for I ward off, hold off (...)

ARCh --- being strong enough to ward off animals;
ancient Greek arkeo for I ward off, help, I am strong
enough (...)

RChA --- small openings in the fence, where people
could pass, but no bigger animals, closed during night;
ancient Greek rox rogos for opening, crack, crevice,
fissure

AChR --- area inside the fence, area of the camp;
ancient Greek agros for field, land, estate, mansion

AChR for the area of a camp must be discerned from
AC for an expanse of land with water: AC would be
the area around a camp, AChR the area of the camp
itself, within the boundaries of the fence.

Regards Franz Gnaedinger www.seshat.ch


Holding a council in a tent or hut

RED RES, DER SER
EDR ESR, RDE RSE
DRE SRE, ERD ERS

KOD may have been the Magdalenian or even much older
Aurigniacian word for a tent or a hut, made of poles or
early on of mammoth tusks, covered with hides. Sanskrit
khada and kuti for hut, kota or kotta for fortress, kotara
for cave, Middle English cod coth couth for hut, German
Kate Kathe for hut. Irish cod for head (casing of the mind),
codal for hide, skin, codlida for made of hides, cota for
coat, raincoat (a mini-tent), Sanskrit coda for jacket.
Indo-European k(u)ot- and Hebrew kot- for spiky - you
may consider the bare poles or mammoth tasks of a hut
before covered with hides. KOS as comparative of KOD
may be the origin of Latin costa for rib (the rib case houses
the lungs, organ of air and respiration, while the skull or
head houses the mind; both are related via Hebrew ruach,
Greek pneuma, Latin spiritus, each word for wind, air, spirit).
The bare beams and rafters of a house can be called Gerippe
(rib casing) in German - when a fire destroyed a house, only
a Gerippe remains. Latin costa English coast may be a
metaphor: the curved shore of a bay resembling a rib holding
the sea. English head may also be a derivate of Magdalenian
KOD, as casing of the mind, like Irish cod for head. English
hat German Hut may be further derivates. Also casing. Latin
casa for hut, Italian for house may be a lateral association,
from cassis catena for wickerwork. Latin codex caudex has
the first meaning of trunk, codicillus of a young lean trunk -
once used for getting poles and rafters. A well built tent or
hut was the pride of those far bygone people, on a par with
a later château, French, English castle. How about cathedral?
This word comes from ancient Greek kathedra for seat, chair,
a professor's chair. A cathedral is a large church that houses
(or once housed) the chair of a bishop. The word combines
kata for down, and hedra for seat, chair. However, kathedra
may cover a former combination of words, namely KOD EDR
for a tent or a hut wherein a council was held:

RED --- speaker; ancient Greek rhaetor for speaker, German
Rede for speech, Redner for speaker

RES --- speech, topic of a speech, concern of the speaker;
ancient Greek rhaesis for to speak, talk, word, narration,
Latin res with many meanings that cover the topics which
may have been discussed at a council

DER --- baldric worn by a speaker, made of leather; ancient
Greek derma for skin, fur, leather, hose

SER --- necklace of a supreme ruler or shaman, decorated
with perforated animal teeth; ancient Greek seira for rope,
chain

EDR --- seat in the tent or hut wherein a council was held,
logs covered with the best hides and furs a tribe could offer;
ancient Greek hedra for seat, chair

ESR --- elevated seat for a supreme ruler or shaman;
ancient Greek thronos English throne

RDE --- protector of a tent or hut wherein a council was
held; ancient Greek rhutaer for protector (...)

RSE --- protectors of a camp wherein a council was held;
ancient Greek rhuesi-polis for the protector of a town

DRE --- finding out what to do, coming to a conclusion,
making a resolution, making plans for taking action,
to plan an undertaking; ancient Greek drao for I do, act,
accomplish, dromenon for deed, undertaking, plan

SRE --- being decided about a resolution, a plan, an
undertaking; ancient Greek zoros for strong, powerful,
vigorous, nourishing

ERD --- to carry out a resolution, a plan; ancient Greek
erdo for I do, make, act (...)

ERS --- to carry out a resolution, a plan, an undertaking
in a fresh and decided manner; ancient Greek ersaeis
for fresh (...), arsaen for virile, strong, ho arsaen for man

KOD EDR may then have been a tent or a hut wherein
a council was held, any larger tent or hut, furnished with
logs that had been covered with the best hides and furs
a tribe could provide. Combine DRE for plan, resolution,
undertaking, with Ida for happy, lucky, and you obtain
DRE IDA for a happy plan, a lucky resolution and
undertaking - origin of Latin Druidae for Druid, Druidess?

Regards Franz Gnaedinger www.seshat.ch



A single tent or hut:

KOD KOS, DOK SOK
OKD OKS, DKO SKO
KDO KSO, ODK OSK

KOD --- tent or hut, poles stuck into the ground, bound
together at the top, covered with hides (in earlier times
mammoth tusks had been used instead of poles, for
example in the case of Dolni Vestonice, 26 000 BP);
Middle English cod (...) for a peasant's hut, cottage
combines a hut with AC for an expanse of land with
water

KOS --- heavenly tent or vault; ancient Greek kosmos
for arrangement, way or style of building, order, decorum,
regularity, (given) state, world, world order, space, cosmos,
Earth, humanity, everybody, ornament, praise, fame, honor

DOK --- poles used for building a tent or hut; ancient Greek
dokos for rafter

SOK --- strong; ancient Greek sokos for strong

OKD --- ground plan of a tent or hut, a polygon given by
the poles stuck into the ground; ancient Greek okta for
eight, wherefrom octagon, perhaps the most common
ground plan

OKS --- circumference and size of a tent or hut, amount
of materials used; ancient Greek ogkos for mass, great
number, weight, periphery (...) pride

DKO --- walls and roof of a tent or hut; ancient Greek
teichos for wall, tegos for roof

SKO --- surrounding area of a tent or hut; ancient Greek
saekos for enclosure, stable, sacred area or district,
sanctuary

KDO --- the large tent of a ruler or a shaman; ancient
Greek kudos for fame, being great, honor, glory, pride,
ornament, success, prosperity

KSO --- ornaments decorating such a tent or hut; ancient
Greek kissos for ivy, giving an idea of how a decorated
tent or hut may have looked like

ODK --- those inhabiting a large tent or hut, a ruler,
a shaman; ancient Greek hodaegos for the one showing
the way, leader (ruler), teacher (shaman)

OSK --- the art of building a large tent or hut; ancient
Greek askeo for I work upon carefully and artisticly,
I produce, manufacture, decorate, furnish, exercise,
practise, endeavor

A drawing in the Cosquer cave near Marseille, 27 000 BP,
shows a rectangle or trapezoid, in the foreground five large
triangles which may represent five large tents, in the middle
ground a free zone, a line indicating an elevation on the left
side, in the background a line of eight or nine small triangles
or tents. This may have been a permanent camp or DAI,
while summer camps in the north were smaller. Two further
drawings in the same cave may be read as maps of camps
in the region of Marseilles.

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