Re: what is etymology? (linguistics and biology)

While preparing a glossary, part 1, Magdalenian wisdom

One year ago, in my Lascaux thread, I proposed some
four hundred Magdalenian words, and found two laws:

1. Inverse forms are closely related
2. Permutations yield words around the same meme

This year I realized that all six permutations of a three-
letter word can be pronounced, and found two more laws:

3. D-forms are comparated in S-forms
4. Important words can have lateral associations

Using my four laws I systematically mined over 450 new
Magdalenian words in less than three months time,
an average of more than five words per day. For a group
of six words I needed between ten minutes and one hour,
rarely longer. Finding the meme behind the many possible
descendants of a hypothetical Magdalenian word was
the true challenge. I had to switch on the super-computer
of my brain. The real boost came with the third law of
D-forms that are comparated in S-forms, allowing me to
go for a group of a dozen words at a time. The largest
cluster I found comprises 72 words, twelve permutation
groups of six words ... Spring is my linguistic season, and
I told myself that I will go on until I can convey the message
of the composite human animal near the entrance of the
Lascaux cave in Magdalenian. Meanwhile I can:

KER SAP, LEI TAC, MUC CRA, AMA CED --- make
a wise use of your weapons, be patient, silent, decided
and quick as a lion, strong as a bull, and caring as
a mother

Now that I have achieved my goal, I prepare a glossary
of the new Magdalenian words, removing the bugs, and
adding further evidence. For example I gave

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

This word, defined by a cluster of twelve D/S-words,
reminds me of the famous dictum "cogito ergo sum"
by René Descartes. The more complete Magdalenian
version would be: I see, feel, think - I am.

The permutations of COR yielded a surprising result.
COR was the word for young people with a pounding
heart. Consider one of the permutations:

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

I missed a fine descendant of that permutation, namely
ancient Greek chronos for time, personified in Kronos.
Time, then, was originally associated with the heartbeat
of young people, later on separated in different words:
one for young people, ancient Greek koros korae, and
one for heart, Latin cor, while the former context survived
in the (physiologically no longer correct) metaphor of the
heart as center of feelings. I find beauty and wisdom in
Magdalenian, also when considering the two forms of time
encountered so far: Young people have time on their side.
When you are young, time belongs to you. Then you may
get children, raise them, teach them, care for them. If you
happen to reach an old age, you overlook many years.
You see time as a long river. You can imagine life as it
was in early times, you can anticipate how life may be for
coming generations. Yet a river consists of every single drop,
and time of every single heartbeat of the dear young ones ...

Regards Franz Gnaedinger www.seshat.ch



1 3 5 7 9

IAS, period number one of the late Magdalenian calendar,
deep winter (January 9 - February 13), when one stays in
the area of the winter camp, feeding on dried fish and meat:
here -- one place. In terms of water: a well

PhON, period number three, early spring (March 23 - April
27), when the camp bustles with life and activities, when
one leaves the camp, following the river up and down: here,
up the river, down the river -- three places. In terms of water:
a river

PAS, period number 5, late spring early summer (June 4
- July 9), when one roams the land, when young men look
out for young women: here, in the south, north, east and
west -- five places. Represented by a domino five, also the
five on a dice, or by a hand, the thumb staying for here,
the other fingers for the cardinal directions. Pas means
everywhere in a plain. Ancient Greek pas pan for all,
every, penta for five. In terms of water: how rivers flow,
in all directions, also filling ponds and lakes

SAP, period number seven, late summer (August 15 -
September 20), everywhere in a wider sense: here, south,
north, east and west of me, deep under me in the ground,
high above me in the sky -- seven places. Old Indic sapta,
Latin septem, German sieben for seven. Ancient Greek
sophia for skill, experience, knowledge, knowledge of the
world, wisdom, philosophy. Latin sapio for I understand
also means I taste, hence refers to a knwoledge acquired
via the senses. Consider the seven openings of the head,
mouth, nostrils, eyes, ears. In terms of water: all the ways
water moves, also draining away, feeding the river of the
Underworld, also evaporating, raising as fog, sailing across
the sky in clouds, raining down on earth, also raising as
sap in a plant. Sap may also have been a tree, perhaps
an early form of the Tree of the World: marking a place
on earth, the center of our world, deeply rooted in the
ground, growing into the sky, indicating the four cardinal
directions with branches. Sap as tree may have survived
in the dialect of a remote area, then found into later Latin
as sappinus for spruce, pine-tree. Sap ascending in shrubs
makes berries grow and ripen in this period of the year

NOPh, period number nine, late fall, snow (October 28 -
December 2, covering all of our November), the world in
all dimensions: here, south, north, east and west of me,
under and above me, in the past and future -- nine places.
In terms of water: all the waters that ever flew and will ever
move, well up from the ground, run as brooks and rivers,
fill ponds and lakes and the sea, drain away and feed the
river of the Underworld, raise as fog, sail across the sky
as clouds, and rain down on the land ...

The periods 1 3 5 7 9 may also stay for the human ages,
from very young to very old. The period of SAP would then
represent the ruler in a mature age, the wise head of a tribe,
who was worshipped, of whom one took very good care.
This may be remembered in Old Indic sap for I care, honor,
estimate, hold in high esteem.




KER SAP, LEI TAC, MUC CRA, AMA CED

Upon entering the Lascaux cave via the ancient
entrance one saw as first picture a composite
animal combining the bearded head of a man
- a pair of lances growing out of his front - with
the mottled hide and front legs of a feline, the
hind body and legs of a bison, and the belly of
a pregnant mare:

www.seshat.ch/home/menhjr88.JPG
www.seshat.ch/home/menhir6f.JPG

I interpret this human animal as a message on
behalf of an aspiring ruler, telling him how he must
be: he must make a wise use of weapons, which
is why they grow as lances out of his head, he must
be patient, decided and quick as a lion, strong as
a bull, and caring as a pregnant mare, like a mother.

Now let us transform this message into Magdalenian.

CER was the divine stag and the divine hind; Latin
cervus French cerf for stag. The Celtic god Cernunnos,
Lord of all animals, was wearing stag antlers. Ancient
Greek keros means horn. The divine hind licked young
moon bulls into life (Altamira cave; Orion as the divine
hind-woman flanked by a pair of opposing ibices, the
Hyads with Aldebaran as horns of the young moon bull
representing the begin of a lunation), while the divine
stag protected the sun horse and moon bull on their
way across the sky and through the long cave of the
Underworld. As CER PIR, stag fire, he protected the
entrance to and exit from the Underworld (became
the hellhound Kerberos protecting the Hades with fiery
breath). Ancient Greek keraunos means flash, so a flash
may have been seen as the fiery antlers of the divine stag.
I propose KER for lance, as lateral sssociation to CER,
since the lances grow like horns out of the head of the
human animal in the Lascaux cave. "Ger" in German
means lance, spear. For technical words in Magdalenian
I prefer the letter K, hence KER.

PAD means foot, activity of feet, to go, pad along,
pad pad pad pad ... (onomatopoetic). The comparated
S-form PAS means everywhere: here, south and north,
east and west of me, wherefrom ancient Greek pas pan
for every, penta for five. The inverse form SAP means
everywhere in a wider sense: here, south and north, east
and west, under and above me, wherefrom Latin septem
for seven, ancient Greek sophia for skill, experience,
knowledge, knowledge of the world, wisdom, philosophy.

Now combine KER for spear, lance, with SAP for wisdom
that comes from knowing the world in every dimension
and in all its aspects, and you get KER SAP for making
a wise use of weapons.

LEI means the attack of a lion. I propose TAC for the
way a lion behaves; Latin tacitus for quiet, silent, secret,
ancient Greek tachys for quick, consider also tactics,
inverse CAT for feline, Latin catulus for cat. Combine
LEI with CAT and you get LEI TAC for the way a lion
behaves when attacking.

MUC means a bison, a bull, CRA strength and power.
Combine them and you get MUC CRA for the strength
of a bull.

PAC means a horse, AMA means mother, PAC AMA
would be a mare as mother of a fowl. Here we can do
with AMA for mother. CED means to care for. Combine
AMA with CED and you get AMA CED for caring like
a mother.

KER SAP, LEI TAC, MUC CRA, AMA CED --- make
a wise use of your weapons, be silent and quick as a lion,
strong as a bull, caring as a mother ...

This formula can easily be pronounced, and it says more
than a book. Two words, namely SAP for wise and CED for
to care name periods of the second Magdalenian lunisolar
calendar, in opposite positions, completing each other.


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