Re: Magdalenian words and compounds 2006/7

Magdalenian words and compounds 2006/7

Part 44

DIR SIR, RID RIS, IRD IRS, DRI SRI, RDI RSI;
IDR ISR --- how to cope with danger, adversities
and calamities

DIR --- to look out for signs of danger and
adversities, to face them directly when they arise
and occur, which may cause fear, also to speak
about them; Latin dirus for announcing calamities,
horrible, dirae for signs that announce harm and
calamity, directus for direct (compound dir rag),
perhaps English ear, French dire (pronounced dir)
for to speak, talk

SIR --- to warn of adversities and calamities,
sometimes in vain, as some people seem to be
attracted by danger and risk while others simply
don't care about warnings (too many tourists
die in the Swiss Alps because they ignore
warnings of the locals, Cassandra warned the
Trojans in vain); ancient Greek seiraen Latin
siren, lured many a sailor into doom, whereas
our sirens warn of an imminent danger

RID --- to laugh, laugh a danger away, to
encourage each other laughing; Latin ridere
for to laugh

RIS --- to mock and deride (an adversary,
for one); Latin risus for laughter and laughing
stock

IRD --- to be angry: Latin iratus for I am angry

IRS --- to be very angry; Latin irasco for I am
angry

DRI --- being helpless in the face of calamities,
getting sad, bitter, hard, harsh; ancient Greek
drinys for cutting, sharp, stinging, astringent,
harsh, bitter (...), Latin tristis for sad, afflicted,
hurting, harsh, unfriendly, gloomy, angry, horrible,
dangerous, earnest, cold, hard

SRI ---wishing to get rid of adversities and calamities,
to eradicate their causes; Latin sario for to weed out
(etymology unclear says my dictionary)

RDI --- to cope in a rational way with dangers,
adversities and calamities; Latin ratio for reason,
rationalis for rational

RSI --- to even out emotions in order to find
a reasonable solution and to cope in a rational way
with dangers, adversities and calamities; Latin
rasilis for smooth(ed)

IDR --- to cope with dangers, adversities and
calamities on the basis of knowledge; ancient
Greek idris for knowing, experienced

ISR --- to invoke divine knowledge and advice
in order to cope with danger, adverisities and
calamities; *isaros for strong, sacred

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Yusuf B. Gursey: thanks for the correction

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Magdalenian words and compounds 2006/7

Part 43

TOR ROT, TRO ORT, RTO OTR --- how a bull moves

TOR --- moise and commotion as caused by a bull;
ancient Greek tauros for bull, and similar words in
many languages (cf. Saul Levin)

ROT --- noises a bull makes; ancient Greek rhotheo
for I rustle, make noise, grumble, roar

TRO --- tu run; ancient Greek trocha(z)o for I run,
German trotten Trott (for the slow run of a horse)

ORT --- straight on, as a bull runs; ancient Greek
orthos for straight

RTO --- the elegant way a bull moves when running;
ancient Greek orthos for straight on (...)

OTR --- swift, nimble; ancient Greek otralos and
otraeros for swift, brisk, quick, nimble

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Magdalenian words and compounds 2006/7

Part 42

POT TOP, TPO OPT, PTO OTP - power, lateral
associations to PAD and PAS

POT --- ruler; ancient Greek potnia for a female ruler,
despoina for lady of the house (Despoina was a
powerful goddess, her secret name was Nyx, alter
ego of Gaia), Latin potentia and potentas for power,
English potency and power

TOP --- place and rank, where a ruler lives, also
his or her rank; ancient Greek topos for place, rank,
English top

TPO --- appearance, composure and splendor of
a ruler; ancient Greek typos for appearance, form,
shape (...)

OPT --- a ruler presenting himself, herself; ancient
Greek optasia for appearance, optanomai for to let
oneself be seen, Latin optimus for the best

PTO --- a ruler gaining influence; ancient Greek
peitho for I persuade (...), patis for step, path,
petomai for to speed, hurry, fly, consider the bird
as emblem of a ruler, birdman of Lascaux, bird
goddess of the Balkans and predynastic Egypt,
Horus falcon

OTP --- how a ruler paves the way; ancient Greek
odopoieo for I pave the way

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Magdalenian words and compounds 2006/7

Part 41

BOL LOB, OBL LBO, BLO OLB --- a young child

BOL --- a baby, a toddler; ancient Greek bolos
for to cast, throw (German Wurf also means
litter, brood), perhaps also berphos for the young
one, Hebrew wolod for child, Russian molod for
young, Arabic waladat for she gave birth,
Latin mollis for soft, tender, Arabic malida for
he or it was soft, Bole or Bolae in my medieval
language means something round and soft,
used as a pet name for a toddler, myn Bolae,
my sweet little chubby child ...

LOB --- a baby sleeping, deep sleep of a child;
ancient Greek lophaeo for I rest

OBL --- to increase the members of a family,
a tribe, a clan; ancient Greek ophello for I increase

LBO --- to anoint a baby; ancient Greek lipoo lipao
for I shine of ointment

BLO --- to be born; ancient Greek blosko for
I arrive (...)

OLB --- luck, blessing, being happy about a newborn;
ancient Greek olbos for luck, blessing, salvation,
wealth, power (this word would tell how children were
valued)

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Part 40

BRI IRB, RBI IBR, BIR RIB --- Brigid, a powerful triple
goddess

BRI --- fertility, pregnant women, source of life,
blessed land with plenty of wells, rain, and a lush
vegetation; ancient Greek bryo for to be full, to
grow and bloom, to well, English bride, also
Britain as a green island (more later)

IRB --- herbs, especially herbs used by a midwife
to ease labor-pains, perhaps also herbs and mildly
alcoholic berries for disinfecting water, and herbs
used for medical purposes in general; Latin herba
English herb

RBI --- labor pains, giving birth; ancient Greek rhopae
for turning point, crisis, decision (...), Latin rabies for
rabies, madness (etymology unclear, labor-pains, then),
rubidus for dark red, brown red (color of dried blood)

IBR --- a newborn child; ancient Greek habros for
sumptuous, soft, delicate, fine, elegant, beautiful

BIR --- fur, wherein a newborn child was laid in order
to keep it warm; ancient Greek byros English fur

RIB --- a crib or basket of wickerwork, laid out with
fur; ancient Greek rhipizo for wickerwork

Now we got words for the three goddesses:

PIR GID --- fire (pir) giver (gid)
BIR GID --- fur (bir) giver (gid)
BRI GID --- fertility (bri) giver (gid)

The very oldest goddess would have been

BRI GID --- feritlity (bri) give and take (gid), the fertile
one who gives and takes, the cosmic goddess whose
body was the Earth and whose head was the sky,
perhaps worshipped in some mountains on top of which
rose the sun or the moon, represented in numerous
Venus figurines, whose bodies are mountains of flesh
while their heads are abstract and round, see for example
the Venus of Willendorf; Old Irish proper name Brigit,
German Berg for mountain, English bright

BRI GNE --- fertile (bri) nine days or nights of the full moon
(gne), comparing the swollen figure of a pregnant woman
with the full moon, and the nine months of a pregnancy
with the nine days of the period of the full moon; might be
the origin of the female given name Britney

BRI GNY --- fertile (bri) child (gny), the fetile one who
gives life to a child; alternative explanation of the female
given name Britney

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