Re: what is etymology? (linguistics and biology)

Glossary of the new Magdalenian words, part 27

ChAR RACh, ChRA ARCh. RChA AChR - fence

ChAR --- poles for making tents and huts and a
fence around a camp, some of which may have
been decorated with figurines carved from wood;
ancient Greek charax for pole, palisade, charis
for grace, Charis being one of the Graces

RACh --- intertwined thorn branches used for
a fence, filling the spaces between the poles;
ancient Greek rachos for thorn shrub, hedge

ChRA --- to ward off (purpose of a fence); ancient
Greek chraismeo for I ward off, hold off (...)

ARCh --- being strong enough to ward off animals;
ancient Greek arkeo for I ward off, help, am strong
enough

RChA --- small openings in the fence where people
could pass, closed in the night; ancient Greek rox
rogos for opening, crack, crevice, fissure

AChR --- area inside rthe fence, area of the camp;
ancient Greek agros for field, land, estate - to be
discerned from AC for an expanse of land with water,
the area around a camp, outside the fence

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Glossary of the new Magdalenian words, part 26

TOM MOT, OTM MTO, OMT TMO --- working on
hides

TOM --- stone kniive; ancient Greek tomae for cut

MOT --- to cut and clean a hide with a stone knive;
Latin moto for I move back and forth

OTM --- hide, so named for the specific smell of
leather and fur; ancient Greek odmae osmae
for smell, fragrance

MTO --- to knead wet hides in order to make them
soft; ancient Greek matto masso for I kneed, English
massage

OMT --- hides as raw material for making clothes,
belts, baldrics, covers, tent walls, and so on; ancient
Greek omos for raw, crude, fresh (...), omotaes for
roughness

TMO --- treasurer of hides; ancient Greek tamaias
for treasurer

Regards Franz Gnaedinger www.seshat.ch


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



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


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