Re: what is etymology? (linguistics and biology)

Glossary of the new Magdalenian words, part 25

ARC CRA, CAR RAC, RCA ACR / TYR RYT
--- hunting a cave bear

ARC --- cave bear Ursus spelaeus; ancient Greek
arktos Latin ursus for bear

CRA --- strength,. power and skills needed to hunt
a cave bear, rewarded by a successful hunt, and
by the privilege of raising a cranium filled with bear
blood in order to sacrifice the soul of the bear and
thus establish a link with the beyond, imploring
strength, power and skills from above; ancient
Greek krateo for I am strong, powerful, I overcome
(...), German Kraft for strength, power, English
craft for skill, Greek krataer English crater, the
Ainu of Hokkaido believe that the soul of a ritually
sacrificed bear establishes a link with the beyond

CAR --- head of a bear, deposited at a cult place,
for example in a cave; ancient Greek kar for head

RAC --- fur of a bear; ancient Greek rhagos for rug,
carpet, cover, English rug

RCA --- ritual sacrifice of the soul of a bear, raising
a cranium filled with bear blood; ancient Greek rhezo
for I sacrifice

ACR --- depositing a bear head on top of a stone pillar;
ancient Greek akros for top, akrothonion for depositing
a donation on top

TYR --- he who overcomes; turned into ancient Greek
tyrannos for tyrant, also Norse tyr for the god of law
and war

RYT --- to throw a spear or lance; ancient Greek rythor
for archer, protector

ARC TYR --- he who overcomes (tyr) a cave bear (arc);
surviving in Arthur, who slained a dragon - bones and
skulls of the long extinct cave bears were regarded as
remains of dragons

CRA L with a clicking L, CRA ) --- the power of the lion
man who can also overcome a cave bear and has the
privilege to raise the bucranium filled with blood,
wherefrom grail

Regards Franz Gnaedinger www.seshat.ch


Glossary of the new Magdalenian words, part 24

DAM SAM, MAD MAS, DMA SMA, AMD AMS, ADM ASM,
MDA MSA --- how a group of Magdalenian hunters can
overcome a big and strong animal such as a bison

DAM --- hunting a bison, how a group of Magdalenian
hunters can overcome a bull; ancient Greek damazo
for I overcome

SAM --- to cooperate, work together; Sanskrit sam
for together, ancient Greek syn- sym-, German
zusammen for together

MAD --- to learn how to hunt a bison in a common
effort, as a group; ancient Greek mathaema for
learning, teaching, experience, lesson, science, art

MAS --- chief bull hunter, the one who commands
a hunting expedition, leads the first and all deciding
blow, attacking a weak spot, making the poor beast
raving mad, going blind of rage, whereupon the other
hunters attack it from all sides. MAS is also the teacher
of the young hunters, wearing a bull mask and hides,
the boys attack him with toy spears and lances,
whereupon he behaves in the way a bull would. Latin
mas for man, actually little man, perhaps in relation with
the big animal (see the bull and small hunter in the cave
of Gabillou)

DMA --- knowledge of the body and behaving of a bison;
ancient Greek demos for the way a body is built (gestalt)

SMA --- to command a bison hunt, giving signals, leading
a group of hunters, being the one who applies the first
and all deciding blow; ancient Greek saemaino for I give
a signal, perhaps also English small, German schmal for
narrow, lanky, denoting the small chief hunter alone in
front of the big animal

AMD --- lacking the knowledge of a chief hunter, not really
knowing where and how to apply the first blow, being in
the group of hunters that come second; ancient Greek
amathaes for ignorant

AMS --- to overcome a bison in a common effort, attacking
the bull from all sides when the first blow has been applied
by the chief hunter MAS; ancient Greek amothei hamothei
for out of everywhere, out of every direction

ADM --- fearless; ancient Greek adeimatos for fearless

ASM --- so very fearless that one can even sing, or, the
other way round, singing in order to overcome one's fear;
ancient Greek asmae for song

MDA --- to consider everything concerning a bison hunt;
ancient Greek medo for I think, care for, think out, give
orders, command, rule

MSA --- being led by intuition and inspiration; ancient
Greek Mousa for muse, consider that Odysseus who
tackled the stronghold of Troy had been assisted by
his muse Athena



Glossary of the new Magdalenian words, part 23

MUC --- bull; Mycenae perhaps the stronghold of the
Zeus bull
PAC --- horse
PEC --- game, boar, ibex
PIC --- bird?

CUM --- a group of bull hunters; Latin cum for together
MAS ---chief hunter, leader of a CUM, also a teacher
of hunting
MAD --- pupils of a MAS; ancient Greek mathaematha
for learning, teaching, science

PAC CAP, APC CPA, ACP PCA --- hunting horses

PAC --- horse

CAP --- group of horse hunters; Latin capere for to
capture

APC --- to deroute a herd of horses and drive them
into an enclosure, or over a cliff; several Greek words
of the form ap(o)-k-, for example apokrino for I separate,
apokino for I move away

CPA --- to beat horses; ancient Greek kopae for beating,
slaughter (...)

ACP --- infatigable; ancient Greek akopos for infatigable
(a negative form)

PCA --- to end a horse hunt; Latin pecatus for quieted,
peaceful

The last word would then be the origin of Latin pax for
peace - ending the melee of a horse hunt:

The Magdalenians have been hunters, they needed
the animals they killed, and they honored them by
placing them on the sky - the bull as moon, the horse
as sun, a pair of opposing ibices as midwinter symbol
(Marie E.P. Koenig).



Glossary of the new Magdalenian words, part 22

The Magdalenians were hunters. We are now coming
to words of hunting.

ROP POR, PRO ORP, OPR RPO --- a club, handle
of a club, four ways to handle a club

ROP --- club; ancient Greek ropalon for a club

POR --- handle of a club; ancient Greek porpax
for handle of a shield

PRO --- to raise a club and beat a target in front;
ancient Greek pro

OPR --- to swing a club sideward, branching off
from the main direction; ancient Greek orpaex
for twig, branch

OPR --- to swing a club in every which direction;
ancient Greek opaer ospaer for whatever

RPO --- to let a club sink; ancient Greek repo for
to sink (as in the case of smoke before)


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