Re: etymology of name



On Oct 26, 6:50 pm, "Jake" <Jake.Pentl...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Does anybody know where the root for the word name originated?
In a dictionary it said that it originated to proto indo european and I
was satisfied with that. However, when I started learning Japanese last
year, I was taught that the hiragana alphabet was used for Japanese
words and the katakana for non native Japanese words. I was surprised
to see that namae, meaning, name, was spelled using hiragana. I am no
expert in Japanese and am only trusting what it told me.
I also noticed that it seems to be in a number of european languages. I
know that in frenh it is le nom, and in German ie Name, but are there
any other european language with the word name?
Can you help me please?

Latin nomen. As you ask for the etymology of the word,
I give you my answer, a very "exotic" one if you please.
15,000 years ago, in the Guyenne, people may have
spoken a language I call Magdalenian. It consisted of
short words that form groups of permutations. Here
you are with the six permutations MAN NAM, MNA
ANM, AMN MNA --- all these words are grouped
around the same meme (a term coined by Richard
Dawkins, combining gene with memory), and inverse
forms are directly related:

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

If my reconstruction should hold - what nobody
believes in sci.lang, so be careful - the group of
words tell us more about the word man and the
word name, as we can also consider the other
four words and what they mean.

Regards Franz Gnaedinger www.seshat.ch

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