Re: what is etymology? (linguistics and biology)

NPhO OPhN, NOPh PhON, PhNO ONPh --- snow

CED CES, DEC DES; CDE CSE, EDC ESC;
DCE SCE, ECD ECS --- giving shelter


NPhO --- to snow; ancient Greek neipho

OPhN --- all of a sudden, first snow, winter comes;
ancient Greek aphno for suddenly, surprisingly

NOPh --- snow falling, snow storm, plenty of snow;
noph snow, ancient Greek niphas for snow storm,
Latin novus for new, the world appearing new when
freshly covered with snow, November as the month
of the first snow ... Novem for nine and November
for the nineth month while actually being the eleventh
month may refer to an old calendar of ten periods of
time (my reconstruction of this calendar shall follow
next time)

PhON --- not seeing each other in a snow storm, calling
for each other, staying together in order not to get lost,
wolves crying and howling, dangerous when starving in
winter, even for people; ancient Greek phonos with omega
for sound, voice, call (people calling each other, wolves
howling), phonos with omikron for mass, lump (people
staying close to each other, then), phonos phonae with
omikron for murder (wolves are remembered as murderous
animals in fairy tales)

PhNO --- torches on high poles marking the winter camp,
seen from afar, guiding hunters home; ancient Greek
phanos for torch

ONPh --- a shining torch by night, shining snow by day
in sunlight; ancient Greek aenops for shining, white


CED --- to care for people, inviting them; ancient Greek
kednos for caring, reasonable, good, honorable, dear

CES --- belt worn by a high ranking person, especially
by the ruler of a tribe; ancient Greek kestos for belt

DEC --- being a decent person, helping others when
they are in need, a life savior; ancient Greek decus for
decency, honor (...), consider also decorated for honored

SEC --- providing shelter in the safety of a camp; ancient
Greek saekos for enclosure, Latin securus for safe (...)

CDE --- cooking pit, laid out with leather, filled with water
and food, warmed up with hot stones rolled in from a fire;
ancient Greek kedos for cauldron, kettle

CSE --- a wooden bowl filled with food from the cooking
pit, a spit with roasted meat from the fireplace, ancient
Greek kissybion for bowl, chysis for a heap (plenty food
in the bowl, then), Latin cuspis for spit

EDC --- food, meat; ancient Greek edesma for food, meat

ESC --- fireplace, people eating round a warming fire;
ancient Greek eschara for hearth, fireplace

DCE --- to welcome a guest; ancient Greek deiknanomai
for to welcome, deiknymi deiknyo for to greet, welcome

SCE --- inviting someone into a camp; ancient Greek
skepae for safety

ECD --- a stranger asking for shelter; ancient Greek ektos
for outside (here someone standing outside the camp,
a stranger asking for protection)

ECS --- to save someone; ancient Greek eksozo for
I save

Regards Franz Gnaedinger www.seshat.ch



Homo, human being, a humming animal ...

Latin homo means human being, man, in the plural also
people. This word, I believe, might go back to a very early
time, even to Homo erectus, a hunter who originated some
1,600,000 years ago in Africa, left this continent for Asia
and Europe, and populated Indonesia some 400,000 years
ago by crossing a never less than 17 (seventeen) kilometers
wide deep sea strait on bamboo rafts. All but a primitive being,
Homo erectus. Now picture a group of, say, eight hunters A-H
walking in a line, from the left to the right side, looking out for
game, also watching out for lions and other dangerous animals:

H G F E D C B A

The leading hunter A will look ahead and scan the area
in front of him. The hunters B D F may scan the area to
the right side; the hunters C E G may scan the area to
the left side; while hunter H at the end of the marching line
periodically scans the area behind them. When all is okay,
hunter H makes a humming sound: Mmmmm ... Hunter G
hears it and hums himself, the same for the hunters F E D
C B, whose humming reaches hunter A in front of the line.
As long as the periodical hummings reach hunter A, all is
well. If the humming sets out, something has gone wrong.
Other humming signals, for example Mm Mmmmm Mm ...
might convey precise messages, for example game sighted
to the left side. And so on. Humming might also have been
used as signals when the whole tribe wandered from one
to another area. Humming is easy, costs little energy, is
both assuring and self-assuring, and may well have been
melodical, thus providing entertainment on a long march.
Neanderthals had high and melodic voices, might also have
been humming, if not yodeling ...

Latin homo for man, human being, may then have been
the humming one, the humming animal. Consider the following
words in ancient Greek: homadeo for I make noise, shout,
homados for noise, bustle, multitude (many people), homaios
for consanguine, brother, sister, homaichmia for alliance,
homaichmos for ally, brother in arms, homarteo for I accompany,
meet, do the same, homatae for together, at the same time,
homaulos for united, homaereo for I gather, meet, homiladou
for in swarms, in hordes, homileo for I gather, meet, negotiate,
fight, occupy myself with something, homilaetaes for follower,
intimus, friend, pupil, homilos for a gathering of people, swarm,
mass, a gathering of warriors, noise of a battle, homoethaes for
the same tribe, homoios for equal, together, united, homologeo
for I use the same language (...), homophoneo for I speak the
same language, litterally I produce the same sounds (...),
homoo for I unite, omphae for voice, sound, speech, oracle.

All these words may come from the hypothetical very early
humming language, including homoios for equal, together,
united, since the members of a hunting expedition as
explained above were required to have about the same
strength and skills and good eyes and attentive mind,
so they had to be equal in many resepcts. A chain is
only as strong as the weakest link, a saying goes.

Homo, the humming animal, whose language emanated
from a very early way of communicating via humming ...

A remainder of the hypothetical humming Mm of the very
early human language, I believe, is present in the English
words _my_ and _myself_ for I (ego), in French _moi_ for
je, keeping a memory of the humming Mmmm that marked
presence: here I am, stille there, everything fine, you all can
go on ...




COR ROC, CRO ORC, RCO OCR --- young hearts

COR --- young people, darlings; ancient Greek korae
for girl, virgin, young woman, daughter, doll, apple of
the eye, koros for young man, son, youthful, vigorous,
Latin cor for heart, soul, feeling, courage, reason,
insight, individuum, person, cor meum for my heart
(my darling)

ROC --- the way young people behave, in puberty,
when falling in love, when quarreling, when fighting
over a woman; ancient Greek rochtheo for I rustle,
roar, buzz, race, effervesce, rogalos for torn apart
(by inner conflicts, then, as in puberty), English
ruction (unexplained until now), ruckus, rock and
roll, the agitated and pulsating music of my youth
(rock in rock and roll may fill a vacant place in
the holographic memory of early language, perhaps
via a rolling boulder, rock, late Latin roccus for rock)

CRO --- to beat, knock, a young heart pounding,
a quick pulse; ancient Greek krouo for I beat, push,
knock, krouros for source, Latin cruo for blood

ORC --- instinct, impulse, drive, desire, passion,
when the heart is beating fast, when young people
blush, when the sexual organs swell; ancient Greek
orgao for I brim (over), swell, desire vehemently,
organon in the sense of organ (in the sense of tool
an 'organ' beyond the body)

RCO --- being active, youthful and passionate
activities; ancient Greek rhezo for I do

OCR --- arousal, easily arousable, keen on; ancient
Greek orkioeis for sharp (sharp in English also has
the meaning of keen and eager, scharf in German
can also mean horny, randy, juicy, hot), okriaomai
for getting angry, akros for pointed, sharp, uppermost,
supreme, excelling.


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