Re: The etymology of the German Hell...


Heidi Graw wrote:

Hi Franz! I was hoping you would add to this thread. ;-)

Thanks. Before I read your suggested text, I d'like to
inform you about a find of mine: no meme for KEL and
permutations, but for KAL and permutations, regarding
the Underworld:

KAL --- cavity, cave, especially the Underworld traversed
by sun horse and moon bull, also painted caves such
as Lascaux; ancient Greek koilon for cavity (...), German
Hoehle for cave, English hill (many caves are inside hills),
Latin calor for warmth, heat (consider the warmth inside
a deep cave), ancient Greek kallos for beautiful (caves
are beautiful, and especially the painted ones)

LAK --- water in the depth of the Underworld; ancient
Greek lakkos for hole, ditch, pond, Latin lacus English
lake and loch, German Loch for hole

KLA --- sound the sun horse and moon bull make when
traversing the Underworld; ancient Greek klaggae for
sound, singing, noise (...), German Klang for sound,
Klappern for the sound hoofs make

ALK --- protection of the sun horse and the moon bull
in the Underworld, provided by the guiding snake;
ancient Greek alkos for protection

AKL --- brightness and splendor of the Underworld
when traversed by sun or moon; ancient Greek aglaia
for shine, splendour, beauty, brightness

LKA --- light of the midsummer sunhorse and of the
full moon; ancient Greek lyka-genaes for born out of
light (byname of Apollon), lyka-bas for year

Richard Fester proposed KALL for cave, woman,
source of life, and many more correlated meanings,
providing a long and impressive list of words in many
languages. The Indo-European reconstruction is
*kel-. Now, based on my approach to mine patterns
instead of considering single words I dare propose
KAL as origin of a plethory of words in recent
languages.

Just that much for this evening. Nice company
and a fine meal awaiting me ...

Regards

Franz Gnaedinger

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