Re: Fr/lat/ru tu-vous/tu-vos/ - : etymology ?

On Sep 29, 8:12 am, Franz Gnaedinger <f...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

My reconstruction goes like this:

Magdalenian OC means right eye, while AY means
left eye. A firm look into each other's eyes was the
way of saying yes, wherefrom Scottish och aye
French oc and oil/oui Finnish oikein 'that's right'
'correct', while the inverse form AY OC would
account for German Aug' Auge Auge, the inverse
of AY, YA, for Ja, the German Yes ... With the
end of the Magdalenian,

I thought one of your Magdalenian claims was that moving letters
around in words created new words. Now you give us an example where
they invert the letters and the word meaning stays the same. Which is
it?

about a dozen millennia
ago, many hunting tribes left the Franco-Cantabrian
space for Britain and for the east. Some reached
northern America. The words OC and AY traveled
with them and survived in the Choctaw okeh -oke -okii.
Somewhere, on a building site in northern America,
say, around 1 800 AD, Choctaw Indians and Scottish
workers labored together, and to their amazement
discovered that they had a very similar term of
affirmation, okeh -oke -okii and och aye. The
American overseer then used the two letters
O.K. as abbreviation of both okeh and och aye.
The two letters spread and became popular among
workers. And they loved the acronym, as it offered
many puns. One worker said to the other: Are you
O.K.?, and the other worker replied to the first one:
Yes, I am O.K., if this means Out of Kash ...
Finding ever new interpretations of the two letters
was big fun. One could also introduce dialects
and accents, for example for mocking an Austrian
pioneer: O.K. means orl korrect ... And then the
the supporters of Martin van Buren used the
same acronym for political propaganda: You were
born in Old Kinderhook, abbreaviated O.K.,
you are from O.K., and you are O.K., okay,
all right, we want you for president ... And when
the above Austrian had enough of the orl korrect
joke he replied: olts Kamuff ...- Hide quoted text -


coo-coo


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