Re: what is etymology? (linguistics and biology)

Glossary of the new Magdalenian words, part 30

MAN NAM, MNA ANM, NMA AMN --- hand, man;
last year I gave MHAYN for the right hand, now
I simplify the word into MAN

MAN --- hand, especially the right hand, pars pro
toto for a man; Latin manus for hand, English man,
hand for a worker, German Mann for man

NAM --- name, someone worth being named and
remembered by a name; Latin nomen for name,
German Name

MNA --- virility; ancient Greek menos for a (strong)
desire, eagerness, will, purpose, intention, anger,
vitality, strength

ANM --- to carry out, effect, cause, bring about;
ancient Greek anymi anyo with the same range
of meanings. ANM was the name of the bad
months in the Celtic calendar, perhaps the ones
requiring more effort

AMN --- to sacrifice; ancient Greek amnio for
the sacrificial bowl

NMA --- to make rules; ancient Greek nomaion
for custom, usus

Regards Franz Gnaedinger www.seshat.ch



Glossary of the new Magdalenian words, part 29

RED RES, DER SER, EDR ESR, RDE RSE,
DRE SRE, ERD ERS --- holding a council in
a camp

RED --- speaker; ancient Greek rhetor for speaker,
German Rede for speech, Redner for speaker

RES --- speech, topic of a speech, concern of the
speaker; ancient Greek rhaesis for to speak, talk,
word, narration, Latin res with many meanings that
cover the topics which may have been discussed
at a council

DER --- baldric worn by a speaker at a council,
made of leather; ancient Greek derma for skin,
fur, leather, hose

SER --- necklace of a supreme ruler or shaman,
decorated with perforated shells or teeth of deer;
ancient Greek seira for rope, chain

EDR --- seat in the tent or hut wherein a council
was held, logs covered with the best hides and
furs a tribe could offer; ancient Greek hedra for
seat, chair

ESR --- elevated seat for a supreme ruler or
an arch shaman or shamaness; ancient Greek
thronos for throne

RDE --- protector of a tent or hut wherein a council
is being held; ancient Greek rhytaer for protector

RSE --- protector of a camp wherein a council is
being held; ancient Greek rhyesi-poils for the
protector of a town

DRE --- finding out what to do, coming to a conclusion,
issuing a resolution, making plans for taking action,
to plan an undertaking; ancient Greek drao for I do,
act, accomplish, dromenon for deed, undertaking,
plan

SRE --- being decided about a resolution, a plan,
an undertaking; ancient Greek zoros for strong,
powerful, vigorous, nourishing

ERD --- to carry out a resolution, a plan; ancient
Greek erdo for I do, make, act (...)

ERS --- to carry out a resolution, a plan, an
undertaking in a fresh and decided manner;
ancient Greek ersais for fresh (...), arsaen
for virile

Combine DRE for plan with IDA for happy and
you get DRE IDA for a happy plan, a good
resolution - origin of druid?



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 ...



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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