Re: what is etymology? (linguistics and biology)

While preparing a glossary of the new Magdalenian words,
part 24, a further group of six words, and some additions

The thread "Albanian inherited lexicon (...)" made me go for
the permutations of POT for ruler. Here is what I found:

POT --- ruler; ancient Greek potnia for a female ruler,
despotaes for ruler, despoina for a female ruler, lady of
the house, Despoina was a powerful goddess, her secret
name was Nyx, alter ego of Gaia, Latin potentia and
potestas for power (...), English potency and power

TOP --- place and rank, where a ruler lives, also his rank;
ancient Greek topos for place, rank, English top for a place
and position, top of a hill, top of the social pyramid

TPO --- appearance, composure and splendor of a ruler;
ancient Greek typos for appearance, form, shape (...)

OPT --- a ruler presenting himself, herself; ancient Greek
optasia for appearance, optanomai for to let oneself be
seen, Latin optimus for the best

PTO --- a ruler spreading influence; ancient Greek peitho
for I persuade (...), patis for step, path, petomai for to speed,
hurry, fly - consider the bird as emblem of a ruler, birdman
of Lascaux, the bird goddess of Old Europe and predynastic
Egypt, the Horus falcon of dynastic Egypt, the Eagle as
emblematic animal of the USA

OTP --- how a ruler paves the way; ancient Greek odopoieo
for I pave the way

POT and permutations may be lateral associations to PAD,
comparative PAS, and their permutations.

I gave PAC for horse, PEC for game, goat, ibex. PIC may
be the word for bird. inverse CIP for pole, phallus, consider
the phallus of the birdman in the Lascau cave, and the
bird on a pole, both in the pit of the cave.

Humming might have been the language of Homo erectus,
I postulated in an earlier message. As evidence I quoted
Latin homo for human, many Greek words, and English
me for I, French moi for je. I missed a fine version: OM
of the chanting Brahmans, a sound that makes your body
vibrate ...

Regards Franz Gnaedinger www.seshat.ch


While preparing a glossary of the new Magdalenian words,
part 23, How to cope with adversities and calamities

The etymology of Latin tristis has not yet been explained
in a convincing way, so I propose Magdalenian DRI as
root, from a group of six D-forms and six comparative
S-forms around the meme of how to cope with adversities
and calamities:

DIR --- to look out for signs of adversities and calamities,
to face them directly when they arise and occur, may go
along with fear, also to speak about them; Latin dirus for
announcing calamities, horrible, dirae for signs that
announce harm and calamity, directus for direct, perhaps
English fear, French dire (pronounced dir) for to speak

comparative SIR --- to warn of adversities and calamities,
sometimes in vain, as danger seems to attract some people,
or they prefer to ignore them, Kassandra and others warned
their folks in vain, the sirens, ancient Greek seiraen, Latin
Siren, lured many a sailor into doom, while our sirens warn
of an imminent danger

inverse RID --- to laugh, to laugh a danger away, to encourage
each other laughing, thus diminishing an adversity, also to
laugh when a danger is over; Latin ridere for to laugh

comparative RIS --- to mock and deride; Latin risus for laughter
and laughing stock

IRD --- to be angry, Latin iratus for to be angry

comparative IRS --- to be very angry; Latin irasco for I get angry

inverse DRI --- being helpless in the case of adversities and
calamities, becoming hard, harsh, sad and bitter; ancient Greek
drimus for cutting, sharp, stinging, astringent, harsh, bitter (...),
Latin tristis for sad, afflicted, hurting, harsh, unfriendly, gloomy,
angry, horrible, dangerous, earnest, cold, hard

comparative SRI --- wishing to get rid of adversities and
calamities, to eradicate their causes; Latin sario for to weed
(etymology unclear says my dictionary)

RDI --- to cope in a rational way with adversities and calamities;
Latin ratio for reason, rationalis for rational

comparative RSI --- to smooth and even out emotions in order
to cope rationally with a danger, adversaries, adversities and
calamities; Latin rasilis for smooth(ed)

inverse IDR --- to cope with adversities and calamities on
the basis of knowledge; ancient Greek idris for knowing,
experienced

comparative ISR --- to invoke divine knowledge and advice
in order to cope with adversities and calamities; *isaros for
strong, sacred



While preparing a glossary of the new Magdalenian words,
part 22, miscellanea

On the linguistic radio program I heard that Old German
peracht means bright, English bright being the same word.
This made me look out for composites of Magdalenian words.

AC --- an expanse of land with water, inverse of CA for sky

NUL --- the empty moon (German Leermond), inverse of LUN
for the full moon

PIR --- fire

PIR AC --- fire plus land with water, a landscape under the
fiery sun, a lovely summer summer day; wherefrom peracht
and bright, also German Pracht for splendor

NUL AC --- empty moon, land with water, landscape under
the empty moon, darkest night in a time when there was
no light pollution; wherefrom German Nacht, English night

Recently I reread Frank MacCourt's memoir Angela's Ashes.
He mentions a pair of bright four-year-old twins who spoke a
language of their own, and quotes: hung sup tea tea sup hung,
which is easily understandable: hunger supper tea - we are
hungry, we want supper and tea. Phonetically, these are 3-letter
words: aspirated a - n - g / s - u - p / t - i - i (pronounce the
vowels
the Latin way; Roman letters are early phonems, ingeniously
conceived so that they still do in our time). The grammar comes
form the pattern of repetition, A B C C B A, hung sup tea tea sup
hung. We know of elaborate languages invented by autistic twins,
and we may well find hints at early grammar on the basis of
patterns in their languages.

Reminds me that I have no word for hunger in Magdalenian.
On a merely intuitive basis I propose AN for hunger in Blombo.
the language spoken by the dwellers of the Blombos cave
in South Africa, Middle Stone Age, 75 000 years ago; ED may
have been the word for to eat, bite; A or AA or A-A may have
been the word for water, thirst, drink. An interesting derivate of
A-A would have been Magdalenian AC CA, an expanse of land
with water AC under the raining sky CA, represented by a lying
H on a pillar of Goebekli Tepe, between 11 600 - 9 500, possibly
the ancient name of Goebekli Tepe, ACCA, surviving in the name
akka of the Indo-European earth goddess (Pokorny), and in Latin
aqua for water. Remember that agriculture started just east of
Goebekli Tepe, at the base of the Karacadag, in the late phase
of Goebekli Tepe.


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