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

On Oct 3, 7:46 am, Harlan Messinger
<hmessinger.removet...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

So you made up some surprises and then made the mistake of believing
that, being surprises, they were reality.

In this case you got the killrating mob of sci.lang
on your side, while I got evidence on mine:

the well known zoomorphism and anthropomorphism
in early cosmology (going along with the idea of
the macrocosm being mirrored in the microcosm
as attested to by Platon)

different names for the same cosmological elements,
four Greek terms for the sun depending on the position
in the sky (according to a contributor to the Annual
UCLA Indo-European Conference), oriens for the
eastern horizon and occidens for the western
horizon, Egyptian Horus the Younger for Venus
in the morning, and Horus the Elder for Venus
in the evening

The same entities (sun, horizon, Venus) got different
names, and as the sky is mirrored in the head
(wherefrom the widespread worship of the skull)
we may expect different names for the left eye and
for the right eye as well. I say it again: my pondering
of what I call the verbal morphospace led me to those
different words for left and right eye, arm, hand ...
You simply assume that everything was the same
in early times: when w e have one single word for
the morning sun and evening sun, also they had
one single word; when w e have one single word
for horizon, also they had one single word for
horizon; when w e have one single word for the
planet Venus, also they had one single word;
and when w e have one single word for each eye,
also they had one single word for both the left
and right eye. But of course you have no evidence
for your assumption. It is just an a priori.


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