Re: what is etymology? (linguistics and biology)

Appendix to the glossary of the new Magdalenian words,
part 51, a test (twenty-one)

(continuation)

Let us have a look at the Tiryns disk. The central rosette,
- phonetic value emphatic sigma, Ss - marks the begin
of Sseyr, Middle Helladic form of Zeus. The rosette
commemorates the enforced basis of the former Circular
Building of the Early Helladic period of time in the shape
of a big rosette. Furthermore, the rosette of eight petals
in the center of the disk is a windrose, indicating N NE
E SE S SW W NW - also the god looking into all these
directions, overlooking the landscape, casting glances,
throwing invisible javelins, protecting Tiryns from top of
the Circular Building, presumably a shining white tower
that (and this we know for certain) housed a Zeus
sanctuary ... So we have RYT 'spear thrower', rhytaer
'archer, protector', radius radii (indicated by the petals
of the central rosette), and rota 'wheel' given by the
shape of the disk.

The rosette, phonetic value Ss, an emphatic sigma,
marks the begin of the name Sseyr Zeus. Along the
spiral we count nine soldiers; along the rim of the disk,
which represents the wall around the acropolis of Tiryns,
we see five more soldiers, phonetic value sigma: these
guards and soldiers perform the function indicated by
the Zeus rosette and the word RYT 'spear thrower'
and ancient Greek rhytaer 'archer, protector': they
watch out in all directions, over the wall, and will throw
javelins and shoot arrows at intruders, protecting Tiryns,
carrying out the will of Zeus.

The central rosette also has a calendaric function:
it isn't only a windrose, also a wheel of time, so to
say. Each petal stays for five weeks of nine days
each, together 45 days. The eight petals represent
a year of 360 days. Count the small central circle
for 5 and occasionally 6 additional days and you get
a solar year of 365 and sometimes 366 days. Now
count periods of 45 days continually; 21 such periods
yield 945 days and correspond to 32 lunations.

(to be continued)

Regards Franz Gnaedinger www.seshat.ch

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Appendix to the glossary of the new Magdalenian words,
part 50, a test (twenty)

Albert Einstein: Imagination is more important than
knowledge, because knowledge is limited while
imagination embraces the whole world.

I imagine: An Indo-European tribe living near hills
and mountains of Central Asia called themselves
KAL LAD and KAL LAS people, KAL 'Underworld,
womb of the goddess', LAD 'hill', LAS 'mountain',
for the precious metals copper and tin they mined
from those hills and mountains. Some of the KAL
LAD and KAL LAS people wandered westward,
then southward, arrived in the Argolis by the third
millennium BC, conquered the ancient dwelling
on the bay by surrounding it three times, loudly
calling and shouting, whereupon the natives
rendered themselves. The invaders settled on
the shore of the bay, built the House of Tiles at
Lerna, and a white tower on the limestone hill,
calling it by the name of TRY NOS meaning:
built in honor of the supreme mind (nos) of the
one who triumphs (try), and in whose name also
we triumph ... This name subsequently became
Tryns Slryns Tiryns.

The white tower, known as Circular Building,
went up in flames before 2 000 BC, however,
the enforcing rosette of blocks at the basis
persisted and was worshipped as rosette of
Sseyr Zeus.

Eponymus Tiryns from Arcadia ruled the polis around
1 700 BC, Middle Helladic period of time, overcame
a famine by consulting the oracle of Nyx in Elaia's grove
at Phigalia, introduced the edible olive in the Argolis,
saw himself as lion-wolf-dog-bee king, and celebrated
his achievements by a pair of inscribed gold disks he
wore on his shoulders. These disks are lost now, yet
we have a pair of baked together clay copies that were
found in southern Crete. One of the gold disks visualized
the acropolis of Tiryns with the central rosette as symbol
of the former Circular Building that included a Zeus
sanctuary, and the rim as representation of the wall
around the acropolis. The other gold disk visualized
Elaia's grove at Phigalia.

(to be continued)

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Appendix to the glossary of the new Magdalenian words,
part 49, a test (nineteen)

Inscription of the Tiryns Disk, Middle Helladic, deciphered
by Derk Ohlenroth; spiral and circular rim, each beginning
with an emphatic sigma indicating the presence of god:

SsEyR KI PhAAiNNOS SsEyR AI YLKIOS
OI KYOySANS GONOS ISOS KA SLRYNS
ISOSLA PhAAiNNOS ISOS KA SLRYNS EiI

SsLGOS EOoN KAI YNOS AiI KOy SAOS
PAN O EN NAOoI OS HII ENIOOo ASKIOS

Translation, basically following Derk Ohlenroth,
with some modifications by me; praise of Tiryns
(both town and king) along the spiral, banning
formula as magic enforcement of the wall
around the acropolis of Tiryns along the rim:

Zeus is the shining one also when Zeus is the
Lycaion one whose women give birth to children
his equal, and if shining Tiryns is a godlike town,
also I, eponymus Tiryns (probably from Arcadia,
at the base of Mount Lycaion), am a godlike ruler
(commemorated as the first lion-wolf-dog-bee king
in line on the gold signet ring from a cache of Tiryns,
worshipping Demeter Elaia, and Zeus in the guise
of an eagle, and as the gardener Lord Laertes
in Homer's Odyssey)

Marked (by god) and lonely forever shall be,
and without hope for salvation, who enters
(without permission) the sanctuary (acropolis
of Tiryns, consecrated to Zeus and Demeter
Elaia), and return without a shadow (live in
eternal darkness)

Derk Ohlenroth explains Middle Helladic Sseyr
for Zeus via Doric Sseys, and Slryns for Tiryns
via Ti- Si- Sl-. I propose TYR 'he who overcomes'
as origin of emphatic Sseyr, and the permutation
TRY 'triumph' as origin of Slryns, via the rare shift
T- Sl- (tempus Schlaefe temple, tabula table slab
Tafel, tapper to tap slap, attack Schlag, to tow
schleppen schlep):

TYR Sseyr Sseys Zeus theos deus Dis Pater
divinus divine Tiwaz Tir (nordic god of justice
and war)

TYR NOS Tryns Slryns Tiryns - built in honor
of the supreme mind (nos) who triumphs (try),
and in whose name also we triumph

Next time: visualizing Tiryns and three roots of words
for wheel: RYT rhytaer radius rota / CO OC LOP
Cyclops kyklos / TRY 'triumph' trochos drehen ...

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Appendix to the glossary of the new Magdalenian words,
part 48, a test (eighteen)

Martin E. Huld, _Reinventing the Wheel_ (Proceedings
of the Eleventh Annual UCLA Indo-European Conference,
1999/2000), believes that the root *kwel- 'turn' has
produced at least four separate terms for wheel,
*kwekl-om *kwekl-os *kwol-o- *kwel-es, indicating
technological progress. Furthermore he assumes that
*kweklom originally meant shoulder joint, later neck,
while the axle is connected to the shoulder span *Haks-,
and the nub or nave to the umbelicus.

This may well be, but how did the shoulder joint and
later neck acquire its (hypothetical) name *kweklom?
Picture the leader of a tribe standing on top of the
building on an elevation in the center of a dwelling
surrounded by hedges or a wall, looking around,
stretching his arm, pointing to the ford of the river
down there, the group of trees over there, the hill
yonder, turning his arm in the shoulder joint while
shifting from one aim to the other, and turning his
head in the neck as well, so we have again CO for
being attentive, engaging the mind, OC for eye and
seeing, LOP for the fence or wall over which he is
looking and pointing, hence CO OC LOP *kweklom
'shoulder joint' and later 'neck' ...

A further root of wheel was *drogh-o- (trochos,
drehen), evolving from a sledge or sledge runner,
says Huld. I derive these words from TRY and from
the magical ritual of breaking the power of walls by
by dragging a sledge bearing a dead enemy three
times around the wall of the city one wishes to storm
and conquer: Achilles drags the body of Hector three
times around Troy, the magic works, the Achaeans
sack Ilium, and they triumph (meaning of TRY from
the permutation group of TYR 'he who overcomes'
and RYT 'spear thrower').

Martin Huld sees the evolution of the wheel mirrored
in language: solid wheel (carved from a single piece
of wood) *drogh-o- // tripartite wheel (made of three
pieces of wood, a long one in the middle, almost
rectangular, with the hole of the nub in the center,
and a pair of round ones to the sides) *E2rot-o- //
spoked wheel with felloe (circular rim) *Huerg- 'bend'.

I would rather propose RYT *E2rot-o- for the spokes,
and *Huerg- 'bend' for the felloe (circular rim). Now
lacks a word for the tripartite wheel. I would say the
central piece - long, almost rectangular, with the hub
or navel - is the 'body', while the round pieces to the
sides are the 'arms' or 'legs', fixed to the central piece.
We have then:

TRY *drogh-o- solid wheel

CO OC LOP *kweklom tripartite wheel

RYT *E2rot-o- spokes

*Huerg- 'bend' felloe (circular rim)

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