Re: "Graduate" and "gradient"
- From: "Franz Gnaedinger" <frgn@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: 5 Dec 2006 04:44:47 -0800
Dusan Vukotic wrote:
Serbian GRAD (city, town), GRAÐEVINA (building), GRADITI (build), RAD
(work), RED (order, array), UREÐENJE (arrangement), GREDA (girder,
balk, beam).
There is a Serbian syntagm GRAÐENJE LICNOSTI or IZGRAÐIVANJE
LICNOSTI (building of personality), directly pointing to the
"construction" process during the child's education.
Magdalenian GRA means a cave with painted walls,
pertaining to the permutation group GRA ARG,
RGA AGR, GAR RAG (see my etymological thread).
A drawing is carried out gradually. First you may
draw the line of the head, neck, back and tail, as
proposed by Leroy Gourhan, and you see the animal
appear before your eyes, as if by some magic ...
Then you may add further lines, an eye, more details,
and colors.
Hypothetical GRA survives in graphic. Another word
for a graphic is picture, in German Bild, while Bildung
means education: the picture of the world we acquire
gradually. The etymology of German Bild is unclear,
so let me link it with English build, Middle English bilden,
Old English byldan, from bold, a variation of botl for
dwelling (Webster's). Old High German bilidin means
to form. Danish bild means the tool of a mason. Noble
buildings have always been decorated with graphic
elements and pictures - Bildern -, as the caves of old.
Also buildings form gradually, so there might actually
be a parallel between Serbian Grad and Latin graduate,
as descendants of GRA, while English build would go
back to ancient Greek polis for town, fortified dwelling,
capital, consider also German Bollwerk for a fortress,
and if there was a Magdalenian or Azilian root of these
words, it might have been POL:
POL --- fortified dwelling; ancient Greek polis for
town, fortified dwelling, capital, German Bollwerk
for a fortress
LOP --- hedge or wall around a dwelling; ancient
Greek lopos for rind, shell, husk
PLO --- walls made in the wattle-and-daub technique;
ancient Greek plokos for texture, wickerwork, tissue,
fabric (consider for example the wattle-and-daube
hedges around temples of the Bird Goddess in the
Balkans)
OLP --- wealth and power concentrated in a fortified
dwelling; ancient Greek olbos for luck, blessing,
salvation, wealth, power
LPO --- the labyrinth of tents, huts, houses, and the
ways and lanes in between; ancient Greek labyrinthos
OPL --- protectors of a fortified dwelling; ancient Greek
hoplitaes for soldiers on their feet (in contrast to riders)
Dusan, you may be on the right track when linking
education with the process of building, but please
converse with Brian in another tone. Be aware that
you are being tested. They provoke you in order to
see whether you got arguments, or whether you will
freak out when under attack. Avoid the trap, provide
arguments when replying to Brian and others. As I
told you before, Brian M. Scott is doing a good job
in sci.lang, he answered many a difficult question
by consulting the big volumes of the Oxford English
Dictionary OED. Daring hypotheses require good
arguments. A flaming war won't help you survive in
sci.lang.
Regards Franz Gnaedinger
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