Re: what is etymology? (linguistics and biology)

Appendix to the glossary of the new Magdalenian words,
part 16, another very old word

TON --- sound, to make oneself heard

PAS TON --- he who gets everywhere in a river plain (pas)
and makes himself heard (ton); possible origin of Poseidon,
once the river god, also creator of the horse, and shaker
of the earth

Hypothetical TON would have survived in many forms,
consider for example Jupiter Tonans, the thundering god.
German Ton means sound, while Tonne means barrel,
French tonne English tun, perhaps from a Celtic word tunna.
Mark Twain, in Huckleberry Finn, compares the sound of
empty barrels rolling and bouncing down a long cellar stair
with thunder: " (...) and now you'd hear the thunder let go
with an awful crash and then go rumbling, grumbling,
tumbling down the sky towards the under side of the world,
like rolling empty barrels downstairs, where it's long stairs
and they bounce a good deal, you know."

The origin of barrels were hollow or hollowed tree trunks,
which, in all probability, also served as early drums.

Ît seems that empty vessels have been connected with
sound. German Ton also means clay. Vessels of clay or
terracotta (burned clay) can produce a variety of sounds,
from a happy clatter to a sort of bell-like ringing. Sanskrit
sunya means empty, void. As far as I know the Brahmans
believe that the world began as sound - an empty vessel
resounding? In the Wallis, the valley of the Upper Rhone
in southwestern Switzerland, was famous for their water
channels, allegedly 20,000 kilometers in the Middle Ages,
hewn into rock, made of boards. carved from fir trunks,
etc. In French they are called bisse(s), in German Suone.
The latter may be a loan from Italy, suono for sound,
s(u)onare for to sound (the builders of the Suone were
mostly foreign architects and engineers, and there was
a connection to the Aosta valley in nothwestern Italy):
perhaps referring to the sound a hollowed fir trunk made
when it was produced? or when water flowed in it? or
may it be that the Suone were used as kind of drums in
a communication system? toc toc (pause) toc toc (pause)
toc toc ... someone please come help us (for example) ?

Regards Franz Gnaedinger www.seshat.ch



Appendix to the glossary of the new Magdalenian words,
part 15, a very old word

TYR --- he who overcomes / rules and gives / copes

ARC TYR --- he who overcomes (tyr) a cave bear (arc);
possible origin of Arthur, a dragon slayer - skulls and bones
of the long extinct cave bear have been regarded as remains
of dragons. A virtual reconstruction of the skull of the 'first'
specimens of Homo sapiens sapiens in Europe, 40,000 years
old, from a cave in Romania, has just been accomplished at
the anthropological institute of the university of Zurich, from
skeletons that were found among remains of cave bears.
These animals, larger than a grizzly, were a real threat,
and we can imagine how much the brave young men who
coped with that beast were estimated and valued.

TYR might be a very old word, not only Magdalenian and
Gravettian but Aurigniacian. There are so many variants.
For example SA TYR NOS --- mind (nos) of the one who
overcomes, rules and gives (tyr) from above (sa), possible
origin of Saturnus Saturn, ruler of a golden age; the Etruscan
love goddess Turan who overcame people with sweet feelings;
the Armenian god Tir who overcame people with dreams ...
TYR tyrsis turrus torre tour Turm tower, a building dominating
a landscape. And then there is the Armenian or Caucasian
Polyphem Torq who protected the shores of the Black Sea
by throwing boulders at pirates. TYR assumed a negative
meaning in tyrant. The word oscillated, sometimes returning
to its original form, so in the case of Nordic Tyr, god of justice
and single combat in war.

Ancient Greek thaera means wild animal, beast, German
Tier. another possible derivate of TYR. Ancient Greek
panthaer is a panter. If this word can be read as pan thaera,
all beast, beast of beast, incarnation of an overcomer, then
we might see thaeraetaer, hunter, as a doubled form of tyr,
thaer taer, overcoming the overcomer ...

A river rules the land, flooding a plain when rising, coming
over the fields, overcoming the land. How did people cross
a river in early times? along a ford when the water was low.
The word ford is akin to Latin porta for door, German Tuer,
and the Greek word for door is thyra, which also means
tent of a king, palace of the Persian king, so the Gallo-Roman
-durum, akin to thyra, might refer to a settlement near a ford,
where the river that rules the land and overcomes the plain
is 'overcome' in return.

Also a mountain range rules or dominates a landscape
and is 'overcome' on a mountain pass. German Pass.once
meant a narrow passage in a gorge, while the old word for
mountain pass was Tauern, surviving in the Austrian Hohe
Tauern. A pass or Tauern offered a way to 'overcome'
the towering mountains.

I believe that also the name of my hometown Zurich,
actually Zürich, Gallo-Roman Turicum, comes from TYR,
namely TYR AC ---- an expanse of land with water (ac)
owned by the one who can cope (tyr). The people who
lived in the area of Zurich 5,000 years ago dwelt on the
shores of the lake, on a small island, and on the hill whose
top we call Lindenhof, surrounded by two rivers of many
arms, by brooks and swamps. The level of the lake rises
considerably in late spring, when the snow in the Alps melts.
and in the case of a long summer rain. People had to cope
with all that water. They did so by building houses on poles,
by maintaining fords, by hollowing tree trunks and using
them as ships (Einbaum), and by offering sacrifices, mainly
near fords. The water ruled their life, overcame their land,
and they tried to _overcome the overcomer_, to cope in
practical ways, and by sacrificing to gods and goddesses,
bending and 'overcoming' their will ... They had to cope,
and this would have been the origin of the name of my
hometown: TYR AC --- land of the one who copes,
land of the ones who cope.



Appendix to the glossary of the new Magdalenian words,
part 14, "And the Spirit of God moved upon the face
of the waters"

AC EON NOS --- mind (nos) of the shore (eon) land (ac),
the spirit of the waters near the shore; possible origin of
Okeanos, whose stream encircled the world, also the spirit
of the horizon on the sea. AC EON might survive in the name
of the Aegaean Sea, EON in the name of the Ionian Sea,
both seas being rich in shores. The name of the Akkadian
god of water, En, might be an abbreviation of EON. It would
have been the Biblical Spirit of God moving on the face of
the waters:



AAR RAA AC CA --- air (aar) light (raa) earth (ac) sky (ac);
possible origin of Hebrew ruah, with the same meanings
as Greek pneuma and Latin spiritus: wind, breath, life,
spirit, soul ...

Appendix to the glossary of the new Magdalenian words,
part 13, the supreme Greeks gods and goddesses

CA NOS --- mind (nos) of the sky (ca); possible origin
of Chaos, god of the universe in its primordeal state

AAR RAA NOS --- mind (nos) of the airy and luminous one
(aar raa), evoked by the limestone rings at Göbekli Tepe:
place them on a wall, look through them at the sky, and you
can see the face of the god ex negativo, composed of air
and light; possible origin of Ouranos, Greek god of the sky

CA AC --- sky (ca) earth (ac); possible origin of Gaia,
husband of Ouranos. The inverse form ac-ca would have
survived in akka, the Indo-European earth goddess, and
in Latin aqua for water - water that falls from the sky
and fills the river beds on earth

CRE NOS --- ruling (cre) mind (nos); possible origin of
Kronos, equivalent of sa-tyr-nos, mind (nos) of the one
who overcomes, in the double sense of rule and give
(tyr) from above (sa), Saturnus, Saturn

REO --- to flow, river, wave, water in motion; possible
origin of Rhea, consort of Kronos

TYR --- he who overcomes; possible origin of Zeus:
Sseyr (Middle Helladic, Derk Ohlenroth), Sseys (Doric)
Zeys or Zeus (Homer), would also have been the origin
of the words theos deus Dis ... (earlier on I derived
Sseyr Zeus from sha ca ur, ruler of the colored sky,
the new explanation via tyr is much simpler and better)

CER --- divine stag, hind or hind-woman, also shaman
or shamaness; possible origin of Hera, consort of Zeus.
The divine hind licked moon bulls into life, the moon bulls
representing lunations, periods of 30 29 30 29 30 ... days
or nights (Altamira cave). A reminder of this may be seen
in the cow-eyed Hera. Zeus was also a bull, and so, one
may assume, Hera was originally not his wife but his
midwife - or the Vinca civilization that preceeded the
Greek civilization -, and this may explain why she plays
a minor role in Homer


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