Re: what is etymology? (linguistics and biology)

ARC CRA, CAR RAC, RCA ACR / TYR RYT

ARC --- cave bear Ursus spelaeus, a formidable beast,
by thirty per cent longer than a brown bear, towering
when raising on the hind legs, probably the ultimate
challenge for an early hunter, extinct since 10,000
years; ancient Greek arktos Latin ursus for bear

CRA --- strength, power and skills needed to hunt
a cave bear, rewarded by a successful hunt, and by
the privilege of raising a cranium (bowl made from the
skull of an animal) filled with bear blood in order to
sacrifice the soul of the bear and thus establish a link
with the beyond, imploring strength, power and skills
from above; ancient Greek krateo for I am strong,
powerful, I overcome (...), German Kraft for strength,
English craft for skill, Greek kratear English crater;
the Ainu of Hokkaido believe that the soul of a ritually
sacrificed bear establishes a link with the beyond

CAR --- head of a bear, deposited at a cult place,
for example in a cave; ancient Greek kar for head;
bear heads had been deposited in several caves, one
in the Chauvet cave (paintings therein from between
32 000 and 30 000 BP, a falling rock had blocked the
entrance to the cave some 26 000 years ago)

RAC --- fur of a bear; ancient Greek rhagos for rug,
carpet, cover, English rug

RCA --- ritual sacrifice of the soul of a bear, raising
a cranium filled with bear blood, depositing a bear head
in a cave or on top of a stone pile; ancient Greek rhezo
for I sacrifice

ACR --- supreme sacrifice; ancient Greek akros for top,
akrothonion for depositing a donation on top

TYR --- he who overcomes; turned into ancient Greek
turannos for king, ruler by force, tyrant, also Norse tyr
for the god of the law and of war (Gregory E. Areshian)

(Following Greek I give Y u, not Y y)

Inverse RYT --- to throw a spear or lance; ancient Greek
rhutor for archer, protector

!L (clicking L) --- lion man, consider the famous figurine
of a man with a lion head from the Vogelherd cave,
became Magdalenian !LOG (clicking L) for the one who
has the say; ancient Greek leo and lis for lion, Latin leo,
Italian leone, French lion, German Loewe, ancient Greek
logos for word, reasoning

ARC TYR --- he who overcomes a bear; turned into
Arthur Artus, while the cave bear turned into a dragon,
overcome by Arthur in a terrible fight which lasted for three
days and nights - cave bears were long extinct in the time
of Geoffrey of Monbouth, and bones of cave bears found
in caves had been misinterpreted as remains of dragons

CRA !L (clicking L) --- cranium filled with bear blood,
raised by the lion man in order to establish a link with
the beyond, imploring strength, power and skills from
above; became Arthur's Grail in the pagan version of
the ancient legends, from which Goeffrey of Monbouth
and his followers must have drawn

Regards Franz Gnaedinger www.seshat.ch



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.



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?

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