Re: what is etymology? (linguistics and biology)

Glossary of the new Magdalenian words, more figurative
compounds, part 9

CO OC LOP --- eye, especially the right eye (oc),
reason (co), hedge or fence around a camp (lop),
to look out with an attentive mind over the hedge
or fence around a camp, a guard on his rounds;
ancient Greek kyklos for circle, wheel, a cyclopic
wall around an acropolis, the one-eyed giant called
Cyclops must have been a symbol of a stronghold,
consider the land of towns in the Transural. The most
famous of Cyclopes, Homer's Polyphem, resembles
more a wooded hilltop than a man who eats bread,
and was a symbol of Troy. The compound behind
the PIE root *kweklo- 'to turn around' could well have
been co-oc-lop, a rump form of which, co-o-l, polished
off, would survive in English wheel. Latin rota for wheel,
present in English rotation and German Rad, would
come from RYT 'spear-thrower' - picture a man
defending a hilltop, looking around, turning around,
throwing lances in all directions, picture also archers
of a later time defending the wall of an acropolis such
as Troy. The connotations with a wheel are confirmed
by wheel-like maps of towns in the Transural, often
with a South-North and an East-West axis, whose
walls might also have served astronomical purposes,
evoking the circular trajectories of the celestial
bodies and the sun archer who was associated with
TYR 'he or she who overcomes', on Armenian battle
belts of the Late Bronze Age a woman with the head
of a lioness, in Latium SA TYR NOS --- mind (nos)
of the one who overcomes in the double sense of
rule and give (tyr) from above (sa), which became
Saturnus, Saturn, supreme god of early Rome,
founder and ruler of a golden age. The Mycenaean
symbol of co-oc-lop which became kyklos was the
Argos Eye, a circle with a dot in the center for the
ruling mind (co), six dots along the circumference for
the watchful guards (oc), and the circle for the wall
around a stronghold (lop)

OC CO --- reason (co) eye (oc); Latin ego German
Ich, going along with the psychological ego that stays
in direct sensual contact with the surrounding world

Regards Franz Gnaedinger www.seshat.ch

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Glossary of the new Magdalenian words, more figurative
compounds, part 8

POL PLO --- fortified dwelling (pol) fences and walls
made in the wattle and daub technique (plo): Old Latin
poplo Latin populus Italian popolo French peuple English
people, also Latin populus (with a long o) for poplar tree,
as poplar shoots and saplings must have been used for
stakes while more flexible willow twigs were used for
interweaving (whities)

POL DOK --- fortified dwelling (pol) made of poles
(dok); Old English folc English folk German Volk

POL PLO would have been the compound for dwellings
made in the wattle and daub technique, in warm regions
such as the Valais in southwestern Switzerland, and in
Italy, while POL DOK would have been the compound
for woodhenges in Middle Europe from around 7 000 BP
onward. One may wonder if there was a compound for
a fortified dwelling made of stone. LAD means hill, the
comparative form LAS means mountain. There might
have been a lateral association for stone: LID or LIS
that would have become lithos for stone in ancient Greek.
The compound for a fortified dwelling made of stone
would then have been POL LID or POL LIS which would
have become ancient Greek polis.

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Glossary of the new Magdalenian words, more figurative
compounds, part 7

SPA GADh --- height (spa) good (gadh), a figurative
compound used for mediating between humans and
gods, perhaps also a formula invoking rain at Göbekli
Tepe: may the heights of the sky be good, may they
bear water, may clouds draw up, may it rain, may
the heavenly water irrigate our fields and meadows
and fill the river beds ...; ancient Greek sphoggos
Attic spoggos for a mushroom growing on a tree,
Latin fungus for mushroom - clouds may have been
understood as very light sponges filled with water,
Latin fungere fungo English function - originally
a shaman's privilege and duty, obligation and
responsibility, mediating between humans and gods,
earth and sky, imploring rain, sending up the "snake"
of a sacrificial fire, in exchange receiving the "snakes"
of the falling rain - consider pillar 1, temple A, at
Göbekli Tepe, 315 cm tall, on the side a snake
emerging from the ground heading upward, above
three snakes gliding downward, on the front a web
of eight or more snakes heading upward and nine
or more snakes heading downward, under them
a relief of a ram, and at the base of the T-shaped
pillar a slab the size of a ram that could well have
been the place where rams were sacrificed as
part of a ritual imploring rain. More snakes are
seen on the side of pillar 30, temple D, one is
heading upward (big head) and downward (small
head) at the same time, three others are gliding
downward, above them is the AC CA sign, a lying
H symbolizing earth (ac) and sky (ca) and the
exchanges between them. (PIE *bheug- as origin
of Latin fungo English function has a variety of
meanings that go along with the role, privileges
and obligations of a shaman.)

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Glossary of the new Magdalenian words, more figurative
compounds, part 6

LAB 'cold' in CA LAB for the winter sun horse and BAL
'hot' in CA BAL for the summer sun horse belong to a
permutation group, while BEL 'warm' in CA BEL (IAS)
can be understood as a lateral association to BAL,
and as a derivate of -: I -: for desire (produce the
sound given as -: by touching both lips with the tip of
the tongue), consider ancient Greek lilazo for I desire,
Ugaritic dd for beloved, Phoenician Dido for loved one,
German Liebe English love, German Leben English
life, as verb to live, Latin bibere for to drink (thirst
being a strong desire), English lip German Lippe
- licking the lips must once have been an expression
of desire -, the divine hind licked moon bulls into life,
as shown in the Altamira cave (thus creating time,
lunations of 30 29 30 29 30 ... days or nights),
also the name of the flower lily belongs to the many
derivates of -: I -:

CA for sky in CA LAB and CA BEL (IAS) and CA BAL
goes back to a word I postulate for the language of
the dwellers of the Blombos cave in South Africa,
Middle Stone Age, 75 000 BP, namely KA --- sky,
beyond, what is inside rock, inside a well, also deep
inside ourselves, accessible to a shaman in a trance.
The word may have a physiological origin. K is closed,
A wide open, so KA would have represented a narrow
passage into an open space. Leave a cave and you
see the sky. Animals both in the rock art of southern
Africa and in the cave art of Paleolithic Europe are
shown as if emerging from clefts in the rock. Water
wells up from clefts and holes in the ground. A child
is born via the narrow passage of the vagina. And
finally ideas come from deep inside oursevles and
find their way into the world outside ...

English sun has the same origin as Latin sol. They
are very short words but have (if my assumptions
hold) a long and complex history.

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