Re: what is etymology? (linguistics and biology)

Glossary of the new Magdalenian words, part 28

KOD KOS, DOK SOK, OKD OKS, DKO SKO,
KDO KSO, ODK OSK --- a tent or hut

KOD --- tent or hut, poles stuck in the ground,
bound together at the top, covered with hides;
Sanskrit khada and kuti for hut, kota or kotta
for fortress, kotara for cave, Middle English
cod coth couth for hut, German Kate Kathe
for hut, Irish cod for head (casing of the mind),
codal for hide, skin, codlida for made of hides,
cota for coat, raincoat (a mini-tent), Sanskrit
coda for jacket, Indo-European k(u)ot- and
Hebrew kot for spiky (consider the poles of
a tent before they are being covered with
hides), English head and hat and hut may be
further derivatives, consider also French
château for castle

KOS --- heavenly tent or vault; ancient Greek
kosmos for arrangement, way or style of building,
order, decorum, regularity, status (quo), world,
world order, space, cosmos, Earth, humanity,
everybody, ornament, praise, fame, honor, Latin
costa for rib (the ribs form the house of the lungs,
of breath, which was identified with wind, spirit
and soul in Hebrew, ancient Greek, and Latin),
English castle

DOK --- poles used for building a tent or hut;
ancient Greek dokos for rafter

SOK --- strong; ancient Greek sokos for strong

OKD --- ground plan of a tent or hut, a polygon
defined by the poles; ancient Greek okta for
eight, wherefrom octagon, perhaps a common
ground plan

OKS --- circumference and size of a tent or hut,
amount of materials used; ancient Greek ogkos
for mass, great number, weight, periphery (...)
pride

DKO --- walls and roof of a tent or hut; ancient
Greek teichos for wall, tegos for roof

SKO --- surrounding aera of a tent or hut; ancient
Greek saekos for enclosure, stable, sacred area
or district, sanctuary

KDO --- the large tent or hut of a shaman; ancient
Greek kydos for fame, being great, honor, glory,
pride, ornament, success, prosperity

KSO --- ornaments decorating such a tent or hut;
ancient Greek kissos for ivy, giving an idea of how
a decorated hut or tent may have looked like

ODK --- those inhabiting a large tent or hut, a ruler,
a shaman; ancient Greek hodaegos for the one
showing the way, leader (ruler), teacher (shaman)

OSK --- the art of building a large tent or hut;
ancient Greek askeo for I work upon carefully
and artistically, I produce, manifacture, decorate,
furnish, exercise, practice, endeavor

A drawing in the cave Cosquer near Marseilles,
27 000 BP, shows a rectangle in perspective
with triangles that may be seen as two rows of
tents, and another drawing that may be a map
of a camp near the confluence of two rivers ...

Regards Franz Gnaedinger www.seshat.ch



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



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


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