Re: what is etymology? (linguistics and biology)
- From: "Franz Gnaedinger" <frgn@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: 21 Jul 2006 00:19:53 -0700
Glossary of the new Magdalenian words, part 9
PhAI --- beauty of a well built camp, the shining hides
of the tents and huts greeting returning hunters from
afar, welcoming them home; ancient Greek phaino
for I shine
IAPh --- to enjoy life in the camp, feeling safe, sleeping
in peace; ancient Greek iauo for I spend the night, sleep,
rest, enjoy
PhIA --- drinking a bowl of berry wine before going to bed;
ancient Greek phiala for drinking bowl
AIPh --- spending the night in a camp; ancient Greek
euphronae for serenity, pleasure, joy
IPhA --- to wake up in the morning, refreshed, one's
powers restored; ancient Greek iphi for powerful,
with strength, iphthimos for strong, full of power, fit,
brave
APhI --- to leave a camp in the morning; ancient Greek
aphesis for sending off, start (...), aphexis for going
away (...)
ChAI --- fine weather, sunshine; ancient Greek chairo
for I enjoy, chairon for glad, with pleasure, healthy
IACh --- thunderstorm; ancient Greek iacho for I shout,
roar, call loudly, make loud sounds, patter, pelt, rage,
also iachazo for I jubilate
IChA --- getting dry; ancient Greek ichano for I dry up
AChI --- swelling water; a brook or a river filled with rain,
a swlling mountain river rushing down a gorge; ancient
Greek agineo for I lead, accompany, bring, bring by,
age for let us go, move on, Latin agilis for mobile, agile,
quick (...)
ChIA --- rain; ancient Greek cheo for I pour
AICh --- to enjoy good weather, sunshine, but also rain
in a dry period; ancient Greek euios for cheering, shouting
(of joy), exult, Latin ajo pronounced aijo for I say yes
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Glossary of the new Magdalenian words, part 8
MAI --- zone of women; ancient Greek maimao for I desire
very much, maia for little mother, midwife, Latin Maja or
Majja for the goddess of the earth
IAM --- pleasure, comfort, relief and healing a hunter finds
in the female zone of the camp; ancient Greek iama for
remedy, healing
MIA --- a girl or a young woman reaching sexual maturity;
ancient Greek miaio for I color, tinge, dye, stain (..., would
here refer to menstruation blood), Latin Mia for one of the
three graces
AIM --- (menstruation) blood; ancient Greek haima for
blood, sex, life, force (...)
IMA --- love; ancient Greek himeiro for I long, desire,
wish, himeiros for lovely, charming, sweet, longing,
touching, homeiros for longing, desire, love, charm
AMI --- friend, lover; Latin amicus, amica
TAI --- clothes made of stripes of hides; ancient Greek
tainia for ribbon, tainioo for I adorn with ribbons
IAT --- stripes of fine leather used for winding around
a wound; ancient Greek iataer for doctor, medicine
TIA --- headgear of a ruler; ancient Greek tiara
AIT --- to ask a ruler for one's share in hides; ancient
Greek aiteo for I sak, request, aitia for share
ITA --- young animals providing fine leather, became
the word for calf in later pastoral communities; ita
a word root for young
ATI --- grown up animals, providing hides, fur and leather,
became a word for bull in later pastoral communities;
Etruscan athi for bull
ATI CA --- bull sky, heavenly bull, Atttika ruled by the
Zeus bull
ITA CA --- calf sky, sons of the Zeus bull, perhaps the
ancient name of the Peloponnese, preserved in Ithaca
ITA LIA --- calf safe, very safe - land where the calves
were savely protected, well guarded, thriving and multiplying,
Italia was originally the southern part of the "boot," famed
as land of the many calves. Vitulus for calf may then be
a later overforming of ITA
Glossary of the new Magdalenian words, part 7
PAI ---zone of recreation and regeneration; ancient Greek
paizo for I play, joke, enjoy, dance, sing, paidia for game,
joke, entertainment, pais for child, paidmo for I teach,
educate, paian for rescuer, savior, healer
IAP --- to throw pebbles and sticks at a target, learning
how to hunt by playing such games (in the case of boys),
regaining forces by playing such games (in the case of
injured hunters); ancient Greek iapto for I throw, send,
sling, hit (...)
ÏPA --- to hit a target from near and below; ancient Greek
hypo (many meanings)
API --- to hit a target from above and farther away; ancient
Greek apo (many meanings)
PIA --- vigor; ancient Greek bia for force, power, strength
(...)
AIP - quick; ancient Greek aiphnidos for suddenly, aipsa
for quick, suddenly
ZAI --- zone of food; ancient Greek zeidoros for spending
food, zeira for mantel (the hide used for lying out a cooking
pit, whereupon it was filled with water, food, and hot stones)
IAZ --- to cook herbs for medical purposes; ancient Greek
iataer for medicine, iasos for healing
IZA --- to sit around a fire or a cooking pit; ancient Greek
izo for I sit, I seat (people)
AZI --- heat and ashes from a fire; ancient Greek aza for
heat, dirt, azo for I dry
ZIA --- to cook a meal; ancient Greek zeo for I boil (...)
AIZ --- to share a meal, or one's share of a meal;
ancient Greek aisa for share (...)
Glossary of the new Magdalenian words, part 6
LAI --- materials for building a camp, stones, pebbles, clay,
poles, branches, twigs, bark, grass, reed, hides, water;
ancient Greek lainos for out of stone, lais for pebble,
laisaeon for a shield made of pebbles, leiphos for cloth
(hides in Magdalenian times), lainos for neck (giving
special attention to the narrow and weak entrance), leia
for prey, especially of cattle, leimon for meadow, pasture
(where grass and reed can be gathered), laitma for depth,
especially of the sea (water), leibo for I let flow, pour (...,
water into ditches and cooking pits)
IAL --- works involving these materials, sending out people
to gather them, stretching hides over poles, depositing
various materials on the site of the camp; ancient Greek
iallo for I send out, stretch out, throw at
ILA --- laying out walls and digging ditches for protection;
ancient Greek layno for I trace a wall or a ditch
ALI --- a fence of intertwined thorn branches, protecting
a camp; ancient Greek alysis for chain, protection
LIA --- to make a camp safe, very safe; ancient Greek
lian for very, completely
AIL --- protection; ancient Greek eilar for protection, eileo
for I close up (...), eilyma for cover, eilyo for I cover
RAI --- final works of camp building, to remove sharp
edges and corners of rock, to smooth a clay floor with
water, to cover a floor with bark, twigs, hay, reed, hides,
to rest (when the hard work is done); ancient Greek
rhaistaen for hammer, rhaino for I sprinkle, sprew,
asperse, rhaizo for I rest
IAR --- to consecrate a camp, perhaps the entrance,
and other special parts of a camp; ancient Greek hieros
for holy, sacred
IRA --- pleased; ancient Greek aera for pleasing
ARI --- good, perfect; ancient Greek ari- of about this
meaning, possibly origin of Aryan
RIA --- exclamation: makes my bllod flow, makes me
feel alive ...; ancient Greek rheo for I flow
AIR --- to raise the arms in joy; ancient Greek airo
for I raise
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