Re: what is etymology? (linguistics and biology)

Appendix to the glossary of the new Magdalenian words,
part 47, a test (seventeen)

CO OC LOP Cyclops kyklos

*kweklom *kweklos *kwolos *kweles

hweohol hweol wheel

CO O(C) L(OP) CO-O-L *kwel- 'turn'

CO-O-L kollern 'to roll (unevenly)'

Latin rota 'wheel' and German Rad 'wheel' and many
more similar words in other languages may stem from

TYR --- he who overcomes
RYT --- spear thrower

TYR has many derivates: ancient Greek tyrant (once
positive) / Tir, nordic god of justice and war (Tiwaz) /
emphatic Sseyr, Middle Helladic Zeus according to
Derk Ohlenroth, Doric Sseys / TYR Sseyr Sseys Zeus
theos deus Dis divinus divine Tiwaz Tir / SA TYR NOS
--- mind (nos) of the one who overcomes in the double
meaning of rule and give (tyr) from above (sa),
Saturnus, Saturn, ruler of a golden age / Latin turris
Italian torre French tour German Turm English tower,
dominating a landscape ... Also inverse RYT has
several derivates: ancient Greek rhytaer 'archer,
protector' (the latter testifying to the once positive
aspect of tyrant: he protected his people) / radius
radii, straight lines going out from a center into all
directions, named for spears thrown by a hunter
standing on top of a rock, and arrows shot by an
archer on top of a tower, flying into all directions /
Latin rota German Rad English rotation come from
the same figure and may include the coverage of
a spear thrower or an archer. Latin turris 'tower'
is the architectural version of TYR, rotunda the one
of RYT rota rotare rotundus. English turn combines
the TYR-form with the meaning of RYT rota rotare.

A further group of words including ancient Greek
trochos 'wheel' and 'running way' in the sense of
dromos, German drehen 'turn', may again be related
to a fortified dwelling and come from a permutation
of TYR:

TRY --- triumph

A ghastly episode in the Iliad tells how Achilles drags
the body of Hector three times around the wall of Troy.
Eberhard Zangger explains this as a magic rite intending
to break the power of the wall. Soon after the Achaeans
sack Troy, the magic works, and they triumph.

All three words groups for wheel would then go back
to fortified dwellings, as do the words people and folk.

Regards Franz Gnaedinger www.seshat.ch

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Appendix to the glosary of the new Magdalenian words,
part 46, a test (sixteen)

CO indicating an active mind may even go back to baby
language. Babies are very actively exploring their world,
and their exclamation goo has many meanings around:
look out! did you see this? now consider that ..., while
inverse oog has the meaning of lueg 'look' in a toddler's
language, at least in my part of Switzerland.

CO OC NOT --- seing with eye (oc) mind (co) and
knowledge (not): seing involves the mind as well as
the eye, and mental acitivy is based on knowledge,
"One sees what one knows" (Goethe); Latin cognitio
English cognition cognitive. Ancient Greek gnosis may
come from a rump form, (co o)c not, the omitted pair
of o's accounting for the omega (long o, literally big o,
mega o) of gnosis, t-form in the Delphic gnothi seauton
'recognize yourself'.

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Appendix to the glossary of the new Magdalenian words,
part 45, a test (fifteen)

Harvey and Baldi find *kwel- and kwekwlo as origin of
poplo- populus formally attractive but unlikely. I gave
the k-form some more consideration:

OC --- right eye, to look, watch, observe
CO --- to think, with an alert mind

CO would have been the origin of Latin con 'together',
con-, con-agitare cogitare 'to think', as reasoning is
nothing else than putting together what one sees here
and now with what one saw before and elsewhere,
also through the eyes of other people who are telling
us about their experience.

POL --- fortified dwelling
LOP --- hedge or wall around a dwelling

CO OC LOP --- to watch out (oc) with an alert mind (co)
from the city wall (lop), guards making their rounds on or
behind the city wall, attentively observing the surroundings,
wherefrom Cyclops 'one-eyed giant, eye, city wall', kyklos
'wheel, circle, cycle', also English wheel, Old English
wheohl:

CO O(C) L(OP) CO-O-L whe-oh-l whe-e-l

If my interpretation holds, CO-O-L predates *kwel 'turn'
and may even replace it. A close German cognate may be
kollern 'to roll unevenly', for example a boulder rolling down
a mountain slope. The Cyclops Polyphem threw boulders
after Odysseus. One-eyed Caucasian giants resembling
Polyphem but without the negative connotation in Homer's
Odyssey warded off pirates from the shore of the Black
Sea by throwing boulders from hills and mountains. A long
time ago the Swiss won the battle at Morgarten using the
same tactique, rolling boulders from mountain slopes.

CO-OC might perhaps survive in *** (enforced by
onomatopoesis). guard of the hens, watching out with
an alert mind also he. A pilot's lookout is called cockpit.
German gucken means to peep, look - guards peeping
peeking peering over walls across battlements thorugh
embrasures ...

You may also consider goggle, Middle English gogelen
'to look aside'. The verbal morphospace keeps words
in place and allows the forming of new words with
related meanings. Interpreting the name of the company
and Internet search engine Google (yes, Google) via
CO OC one may translate it as follows: to look out (oc)
with an active and engaged mind (co). The name Google
may also involve the words googol and googolplex, very
and immensely big numbers that can only be perceived
(oc) with the help of the mind (co) - immense files one
can only browse (look out for, oc) with the help of
a clever (engaging the mind, co) search engine ...
The word googol was allegedly invented by the
nine-year-old nephew of the mathematitian Edward
Kasner. If my view holds, the verbal morphospace
is basically outlined at the age of nine years.

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Appendix to the glossary of the new Magdalenian words,
part 44, a test (fourteen)

Homer's Odyssey follows a dream logic. An experienced
sailor of the Bronze Age could have traversed the Aegean
in a week, whereas Odysseus, a very well experienced
sailor, needs full ten years to get from Troy to Ithaca
and his faithful wife Penelope. What is going on here?
Odysseus is already home, but he dreams of the war.
In his dreams he is back in Troy. He leaves the shores
of Troy and comes to strange places where he must
endure all sorts of hardships and cope with challenges
such as the one-eyed giant Polyphem. These strange
places are nothing else than - Troy, Troy in disguise,
and blended with other places and periods of time.

Polyphem, a one-eyed giant, was a formidable monster,
and he resembled more a wooded mountain peak than
a man who eats bread. Polyphem symbolizes Troy as
seen by the Achaeans: his one eye the proud acropolis,
the sheep and goats he was herding foreign ships
(whereas the Achaean ships are symbolized by horses),
and the blinding of Polyphem conveys the sacking of
Troy in the summer of 1184 BC, and in such a way that
every reader of the epic must agree on the just cause
of the Achaeans.

The name Polyphem is composed of polys 'much, many,
plenty' and phaemae 'talk': much ado. Talk about what?
Polys can be read as a pun on polis: much talking about
a town. What town? Troy, of course.

There are more speaking names in Homer that may be
traced back to Magdalenian. ITA CA --- sky (ca) young
bull (ita), under the sky of the young Zeus bull; name
of southern Greece in the Minoic and Helladic period
of time, surviving in Ithaca (ati ca, under the sky of the
mature Zeus bull, Attica).

Helen, cause of the Trojan war, symboles tin,
coming from the Ore Mountain between eastern
Germany and Bohemia, and from central Asia, in
either case bound to pass Troy where the Trojans
laid hands on the precious metal (early bronze
contained much more tin than modern bronze, from
eleven to fifteen per cent). Helen's husband xanthos
Menelaos symbolizes copper, the color xanthos
covering all hues of copper ore, yellow, brown, red.
Their daugther, lovely Hermione who resembled
golden Aphrodite, symbolizes bronze, with a golden
shine when freshly cast. A slave woman and mistress
of Menelaos symbolizes aurichalcit, a natural alloy
of copper and tinc - tinc in enslaved form, so to say.
And their son, strong late-come Megapenthes,
smybolizes brass, alloy of copper and tinc, stronger
than bronze, arriving late in the family of metals.
Now in the name of Helen I recognize Magdalenian
KAL for the Underworld, also for the womb of the
goddess. KAL EN --- in (en) the ground (kal), the
precious metal from the ground ... The same KAL
is present in Keltoi, indicating that the Celts were
miners; in Caesar's Gallia (Caesar waged the
Gallian war for gold, mainly) and in Helvetii, the
Celtic tribe that settled in the area of Switzerland.

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