Re: what is etymology? (linguistics and biology)

Glossary of the new Magdalenian words, part 5

NAI --- to find a good place for a camp; ancient Greek
naio for I dwell, live, settle

IAN --- to mark the place of the future entrance of
a camp; the Roman god Janus personified an entrance,
door, archway

INA --- there, let us build a camp over there; ancient
Greek inae for there, where

ANI --- spirit of a place, and souls of people who camped
there before; Latin animus for soul

NIA --- exlamation: let us build a camp here, it is a good
place ...; ancient Greek nae for yes, verily, nae Die for
"by Zeus"

AIN --- to praise the place of a new camp; ancient Greek
aineo for I praise, esteem, reputation

KAI --- to build a good camp; ancient Greek kairos for
right measure, good proportion, favorable place, right
moment in time, good opportunity (...), kairos for new
(a new camp, then), kai for kindle, burn down (burning
down bushes in order to get more living space), kaino
for I kill (snakes and other animals one doesn't want
in a camp, lions and bears in a cave), kaireos for well
chained (surrounded and protected by interlinked
branches of thorn bushes, brambles for one), kaynmai
for to excel (in making a good camp), consider also
DOM for camp, and the combination KAI DOM,
abbreviations K--OM and KA--M,. wherefrom ancient
Greek komae for village, and the village name of Cham
on Lake Zug

IAK --- to be pleased about a good camp; ancient Greek
iakhazo for I cheer, exult, jubilate

IKA --- plenty of everything needed for a good camp;
ancient Greek hikanos for plenty, sufficient

AKI --- to lead the building of a camp; ancient Greek
aigineo for I lead, guide, bring, bring by

KIA --- exclamation: makes my heart jump of joy ...;
ancient Greek kea for heart

AIK --- shining; ancient Greek aeglaeis for shining

Regards Franz Gnaedinger


Glossary of the new Magdalenian words, part 4, DAI,
comparative form SAI, lateral associations NAI KAI LAI RAI
ZAI MAI TAI PhAI KhAI, and their permutations, all in all
72 words around the meme of leading a good life

DAI --- protected area; ancient Greek tegos for roof, ceiling,
hall, chamber, tektonikos for builder, architect, technae for
art, science (...), Daidalos was the first Greek / Cretan
architect, Northwest Semitic daleth and Greek Delta are
triangles evoking a tent (Richard Fester), German Dach for
roof, French dais for canopy. In caves, DAI may have been
represented by rectangles or "signes tectiformes" (Michel
Lorblanchet)

SAI --- life, existence, to live and be; ancient Greek zoae
for life, German sein for to be, Sein for existence, Latin
essere for to be, ex-essere, to be out of, body from body,
life from life ... SAI may have been represented by dots
on cave walls, lines and fields of dots. And it may have
had an onomatopoetic origin in the sound of spitting.
One says toi toi toi to an actor, wishing him or her luck.
Water of the body was considered having magic properties,
the amniotic fluid of the womb or the spittle of the mouth
which has antiseptic qualities and had certainly been used
for desinfecting wounds. Michel Lorblanchet demonstrated
how the horses and hand negatives in the cave Pech Merle
had been applied to the wall by chewing colors and blowing
and spitting them on the wall, thus giving the animals life

IAD --- healer, medicine; ancient Greek iataer for medicine,
iatreuo for I am a doctor

IAS --- healing, salvation; ancient Greek iasos for healing

IDA --- glad, for example when a cure helps; female given
name IDA from a Germanic word meaning happy

ISA --- free, healed from an illness, made whole again,
being like the other members of a tribe, equal; ancient
Greek is for sinew, muscle, nerve, strength, power,
isazo for I make equal, isagoria for the equal right of
speech, equal rights in general, civil freedom, isos for
equal, fair, right (...)

ADI --- noble, wealthy; female given name Ada from
a Germanic word meaning noble

ASI --- honor, dignity; ancient Greek axia for dignity,
reputation

DIA --- through, seeing the reason behind appearances,
for example the cause of an illness; ancient Greek dia,
diagnosis

SIA --- to be well and in good health; ancient Greek zaeo
for I live, am still alive, lead a life, am able to life, am neither
weak nor feeble, have my strength, live on, flourish, ancient
Greek sialon for spittle, considered to have magic properties
in early times, as water in general and especially the amniotic
fluid as symbol of life

AID --- origin, reason, to help by finding the cause of an illness;
ancient Greek aitia for origin, reason, English etiology for the
study of the causes of diseases, French aider for to help

AIS --- fate; ancient Greek aisa for fate



Glossary of the new Magdalenian words, part 3, DOM SOMm,
MOD MmOS, DMO SMmO, OMD OMmS, MDO MmSO,
ODM OSMm --- D-words concern a Magdalenian camp,
S-words concern the body and soul, Mm denots a humming M

DOM --- a Magdalenian camp, ancient Greek domos for house,
building, flat, chamber, hall of men, household, house of the
father, layers (of stones or brick)

SOMm --- a Magdalenian (man, woman, child), a Magdalenian
tribe; ancient Greek soma for body, life, person, human being,
indiviual, main point, the whole, community

MOD --- a part of a camp; Latin modulus, English module

MmOS --- offspring; ancient Greek moskhos for sprout, rod,
offspring, calf, young bull, boy, girl

DMO --- maintaining a camp on the material level; activities
in the various parts of a camp; ancient Greek themo for
I effect, cause, bring about

SMmO --- maintaining a camp on the human level, to have joy,
celebrate, sing and dance, kiss and love (onomatopoetic for
a kiss); ancient Greek asmos for song, asmenos for pleased,
joyful, joyous, cheerful

OMD --- multitude, many people; ancient Greek homados for
noise, bustle, mutlitude

OMmS --- among equals, people one belongs to and likes,
recognizes and treats as one's equals, consider also the
biblical to recognize someone for to fall in love and make
love; ancient Greek homoios for equal

MDO --- to administer a camp; ancient Greek medo for I think,
care, administer, rule, medon for adviser, ruler

MmSO --- animated, lively, living, having a soul; ancient Greek
empsychos for animated, having a soul; from here humming
Mm for em-, en-, inside, within. Last year I gave OC for eye,
especially the right eye, and AY for the left eye. OC AY was
an affirmation, saying yes by looking firmly into someone's
eyes. English yes and eyes go along, especially in old forms,
and so do French oui and oeuil. English yes and eyes go
along, and so do French je and yeux. English knows three
ways of saying 'ego': I, me, myself. French has two forms:
je and moi. Me myself and moi preserve the humming Mm
of the Magdalenians and denote the inside, me living in the
house, while I and je look out a window, greeting a passerby,
or stand in the door, inviting a guest ...

ODM --- odor coming from a camp fire and cooking pit;
ancient Greek odmae for odor, fragrance

OSM --- fragrance of a person, a lover; ancient Greek osmae
for odor, fragrance



Glossary of the new Magdalenian words, part 2, continuation
of the introduction

Please consider my work an experiment in paleo-linguistics.
My question: what are the possibilities of an early language
that used words of one or two or three letters? Richard P.
Feynman said that it doesn't make sense when thousand
scientists tackle the same problem using the same set of
methods - at least someone should try another way. I am
the one who tries another method: Instead of tracing words
back according to phonetic laws - which, I believe, often
fail when it comes to a time horizon of over 10 000 years -
I propose synthetical words and follow them along the arrow
of time, looking out for traces they may have left in recent
languages.

Instead of phonetic laws I use a method of my own to
ponder the possible evolution and development of words:
I pronounce them silently, over and over and over again,
without giving voice, but formulating them with tongue
and lips and jaw. Not giving voice is crucial here. When
I voice the words, the phonetic system of the brain sets
in and takes control, keeps the words in their respective
place of the verbal morphospace. Yet when I don't voice
the words, they can drift away, and tell me about possible
ways of their evolution.

The roman letters were phonems of the Latin tongue.
Please pronounce my Magdalenian words as if in Latin,
especially the vowels. C can be Z but also and mostly
K, as in REC and CER. There are two special sounds.
One is an L-click. Let the tip of your tonge move along
the palate, and then let your tongue smack into its wet
bed. The result is a fairly loud click, indicated as !L in
my previous messages, indicated as ) in the following
ones. The other special sound is produced by touching
the lips with the tip of the tongue, indicated as -:

In the first part of the introduction I said that I shall give
my words in more or less the same order as I found them.
Now I must correct myself. I tried to arrange them more
logically and thus the chronological order is sometimes
broken up. The order of words I have now is in between
chronological and logical - neither this nor that, I fear.
But my hypothetical words will be much easier to look
up in the glossary than when you - my interested reader
who may find my thread in around 2011 or 2012 - have
to look them up in the mess of the previous messages.


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