Re: what is etymology? (linguistics and biology)

Google company: you got an agency at Zurich.
Last year the ETH Zurich, where Einstein and others
had been teaching, celebrated their 150th anniversary.
A table in the main hall said:

The ETH produced several Nobel prize winners.
These people got imagination, they believe in
their ideas, and if standing alone, they got a
strong will, they work a lot, they are perseverant
if not obsessive. We must make sure that these
people got a place.

Thank you, Google company, for maintaining the
Usenet, a great facility also for the sciences and
humanities. I give my best trying to turn sci.lang
from a chatroom into a scientific forum, hoping
other scholars will follow my example and open
a research thread, here or in another group.


GYN NYG, NGY YGN, YNG GNY --- woman
MAN NAM, MNA ANM, NMA AMN --- man

Last year I gave GYN for woman, and MHAYN for
the right hand. This year I go for the permutations
of GYN, while simplifying mhayn to MAN.

GYN --- woman; ancient Greek gynae for woman

NYG --- night, time one spends with a woman,
when the woman has the say; ancient Greek nyx
for night, Nyx was a powerful goddess, alter ego
of Gaia, her priestesses gave oracles, Latin niger
for black (color of the night, nectar for something
sweet (a drink, a fragrance)

NGY --- pretty and clean; ancient Greek naegateos
for clean, splendid, nakae for fleece (a fleece one
wears for cloth, or a fleece one sleeps upon)

YGN --- hygiene; from Greek

YNG --- a pregnant woman; ancient Greek enegkein
for to bear, bring, aorist of phero for I bring, having
brought, a woman who has brought a child into the
world, then, so GYN may have been a woman in
general, but more specifically a bearing woman or
a mother

GNY --- child; ancient Greek gnaesios for legitimate
(child), genuine, true (consider the old saying of truth
being the child of time)

MAN --- hand, especially the right hand, pars pro toto
for a man; Latin manus for hand, English hand for
a helping hand, a worker

NAM --- name, someone worth being named and
remembered by a name; Latin nomen for name

MNA --- virility; ancient Greek menos for (strong)
desire, eagerness, will, purpose, intention, anger,
vitality, strength

ANM --- to carry out, effect, case, bring about;
ancient Greek anymi anuo with the same meanings

NMA --- to make rules; ancient Greek nomaion for
custom, usus

AMN --- to sacrifice; ancient Greek amnion for
the sacrifical bowl

Regards Franz Ganedinger www.seshat.ch

PS. to my previous message: CIL was a provisional
camp in an abri, while KOD was a permanent camp.
The female given name Lucille might come from
LIC CIL, light / luck plus fire of a camp in an abri,
the shine of a fire of a camp in an abri, a pleasant
sight, welcoming a group of returning hunters


LIC CIL, CLI ILC, LCI ICL --- fire in an abri

Last year I gave LIC for light, luck. Now I had a look
at the permutations and can make it more precise:
LIC was the fire in an abri, a provisional camp used
by a hunting party:

LIC --- light, luck

CIL --- fire in a camp, used for cooking, for giving warm,
for warding off animals such as bears, light given by the
fire, the lucky feeling of having a good fire burning; Latin
culina for kitchen, English kiln. Last year I mentioned
French cil for eyelash - we may think of an upshooting
flame sengein the eyelashes (a well-known phenomenon
to those who make camp fires). If also English kill should
come from hypothetical CIL we may think of torches that
were used as weapons: poles of green wood whose
sharpened ends were coated with birch pitch; an array
of flaming spears would have frightened even a cave bear

CLI --- abri; ancient Greek klisia for hut, tent, shelter,
seat, group of guests, klitus for slope, hill, klino for I bend,
turn, ward off, lean on, sink down, sit or lie down at a table,
perf. to be situated, live, dwell, English cliff

ILC --- an abri lighted up by camp fires; ancient Greek
aelektor for shining

LCI --- a site of an abri, land around an abri; ancient Greek
laxis for a lot of land, laxeutos for hewn into stone or rock

ICL --- to choose an abri for camping; ancient Greek
eklaesis for choice (another ek-word, then)



EID EIS, DIE SIE; IDE ISE, EDI ESI; IED IES, DEI SEI

EID --- appearances, images; ancient Greek eidos for
appearance, form, shape, beauty, idea, notion, concept,
imagination, sort, kind, essence, state

EIS --- reality behind all appearances, ideas and notions,
idea of ideas; ancient Greek eis for the only one

DIE --- daylight; Latin dies for daylight, day

SIE --- to see, feel, reason, be; Latin siem sum for I am

IDE --- idea; ancient Geek idea for appearance, form,
shape, sort, kind, opinion, idea

ISE --- equal, what different appearances notions, ideas
and concepts have in common; ancient Greek isos for
equal

EDI --- pleasure of looking at appearances and images;
ancient Greek hedonae for pleasure (hedonism)

ESI --- quietly looking and pondering; ancient Greek
haesuchazo for I am quiet, still, have it peaceful (...)

IED --- following appearances, notions and ideas;
Indo-European iet for to strive, aspire (Pokorny)

IES --- trying to find the basic reality behind the ever
changing appearances; Indo-European ies for to boil,
bubble, well up, foam, froth (Pokorny), appropriate
metaphors when one considers scientific discussions

DEI --- logical order and sequence; *dein-caps for
by turns (Pokorny)

SEI --- existence of the basic reality behind all the
different appearances, ideas, notions and concepts;
Latin sei for sic, it is so

GRA ARG, RGA AGR, GAR RAG

GRA --- painted cave; ancient Greek chaeronos for
cave, German graben for to dig, Grab for tomb, Gruft
for tomb, vault, ancient Greek graphae for drawing,
painting (graphic)

ARG --- walls and ceiling of a painted cave, shining
up in the light of oil lamps, representing the sky;
ancient Greek argos for white, shimmering

RGA --- fissured, craggy, both for the land as hunting
ground and for the walls of a cave as painting ground;
ancient Greek rogas for fissured, craggy

AGR --- to catch, capture animals - both in natura
when hunting, and metaphorically when drawing them;
ancient Greek agreo for I catch, capture

GAR --- opening, crack, crevisse, fissure in rock,
where animals come from and disappear into
according to a very ancient belief; ancient Greek
charada for crevisse, crack, gorge, river bed, torrent

RAG --- shape of an animal, especially the line of
the head and back, according to André Leroi-Gourhan
the first line when an animal was drawn (a proper line
of the head and back makes the animal emanate as
by a wonder, try it yourself); ancient Greek rachos
for back, also used for hills and mountains

The back line of an anmial emanating from rocks,
life emanating from nature ... We know much more
than the Magdalenians did, yet we still follow the
same lines of reasoning: how did life emanate from
nature? what is the reality behind the appearances?
the idea of ideas? the world formula that can be
written on a T-shirt?

Our quest, I come to learn with amazement,
is guided by wisdom incorporated in language.

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