Re: Magdalenian words and compounds 2006/7

Magdalenian words and compounds 2006/7

Part 54

ONE ENO, NOE EON, NEO OEN - raft, shore,
to swim

ONE --- a raft on a river bank or shore, where it
gets loaded or unloaded; Latin onero for I load, fill

ENO --- a raft on a river or the sea; Latin eno for
I leave the shore

EON --- the river bank is near, also land in sight,
or simply shore; ancient Greek aeion for shore,
coast, river bank

NOE --- no landing place in sight, also no land
in sight (when on sea); Latin noemus for nullus,
nothing

NEO --- to swim; ancient Greek neo for I swim

OEN --- being alone on the water; Old Latin
oenus for unus, the only one, alone

BRI EON --- fertile (bri) shore (eon); possible
origin of Britain (bri-t-eon) and Britanny

AC EON NOS --- an expanse of land with water
(ac) shore (eon) mind (nos), personification of
the shore land; ancient Greek Okeanos. Michael
Janda presented an early Greek vase that shows
the god as a man with the body of a giant serpent,
and links it to the Vedic dragon Vrtra who encircled
the inert primeval world. A hero appears and slices
the monster into an upper half that becomes land,
and into a lower half that becomes the sea, and
thus sets the universe in motion ... The dragon
lies on the ground, Vedic a-sayana, equaled by
Janda with Greek Okeanos. My alternative:
a-sayana 'lying' might have been a rhime on
a derivative of hypothetical ac-eon-nos, rimes
being a beloved element of style and meaning
in the Rigveda.

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Magdalenian words and compounds 2006/7

Part 53

DhAG GADh, AGDh DhGA, ADGh GDhA --- good

DhAG --- able; the supreme Celtic god was called
Dagda, the good god in the sense of the able god

GADh --- good; English good German gut, also
English god German Gott

AGDh --- noble; ancient Greek agathos for good,
noble, brave, valiant, apt, fit

DhGA --- honorable; ancient Greek doxa for reputation,
honor, fame, splendor, glory, majesty

ADhG --- of integrity; ancient Greek aethicos English
ethics ethical

GDhA --- joyous; ancient Greek gathosynae for joy

DhAG for able would also survive in dog, the first
domesticated animal, an able companion when it
came to hunting and guarding the camp and the
fields of the early farmes, also in fox, consider the
foxes on a pair of central pillars at Göbekli Tepe,
probably in their role of guiding the soul of a worthy
deceased through the labyrinth of the Underworld
back to daylight, wherefrom perhaps German Tag
English day as further derivatives. German Dachs
for badger, English dachshund. The followers of
Zarathustra believe that dogs can tell whether
someone really died or whether the soul lingers
on. The Egyptian god of mummification Anubis
was a canid, either dog or shakal. Words for wolf
may have two origins, both KAL for Underworld,
*kel for to howl, whine, wherefrom whelp, then
*wlkwo/wlpo wolf, and DhAG for able, then *ukos
ylkos lykos lupus, Further derivatives of DhAG
may be Latin dux for leader, German taugen for
to be of use, Zeug as in Werkzeug for tool ...

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Magdalenian words and compounds 2006/7

Part 52, for Trond Engen

CO OC LOP --- commander of a fort, gathering
information (co, acitivity of the mind) provided by the
guards who watch out (oc, eye) over the wall (lop);
origin of Cyclops. Consider for example the cyclopic
walls, and the round forteresses in the nation of cities
in the Transural. The cyclopes in Homer's Odyssey
are one-eyed giants living on mountains, their one
eye being the acropolis. The most famous Cyclops
is Polyphem who resembles more a wooded mountain
top than a man who eats bread. Polyphem symbolizes
Troy, and the travels of Odysseus are dreams: the hero
leaves Troy and comes to strange places which are
Troy, Troy in disguise and blended with other places
and periods of time. Co-oc-lop would also be the
origin of ancient Greek cyclops for circle, ring, eye,
ring wall (cyclopic wall), city wall, while the rump form
co-o( )-l( )- co-o-l may account for *kwel 'turn'
www.seshat.ch/home/cyclops.GIF This rendering
of the idea of co-oc-lop or cyclops would have
survived in the Eye of Argos, a similar symbol known
from the Argolis, emblem of a watchful confederation
of fortified dwellings including Tiryns and Mycenae

CO OC NOS --- the mind (nos) who watches out (oc)
and combines the information (co), ruler of a fort;
may survive in Latin cognosco and in the Greek rump
form (co o)cnos gnosis

CO OC --- to look (oc) attentively (co); might survive
in German gucken

OC CO --- looking (oc) reasoning (co); might be the
origin of ancient Greek ego (with omega) Latin ego,
while the common form of saying je in French and
I in English would have been humming Mm, preserved
in French moi and English me

AD TOR OC CO --- toward (ad) bull in motion (tor)
eye (oc) reason, attention (co, a bull fighter facing
the dangerous animal, later the bull leapers of
Crete (perhaps earlier on of Ebla), then for any
situation where humans meet with fate, have to
cope with a dreadful situation; Mycenaean atoroqo
for human being, also for woman (there have been
female bull leapers too) and for slave (many of the
formerly so proud Cretans became slaves under
the Mycenaeans). The word may also be present
in the genitive form of anaer for man, namely andros.
Consider the first line of Homer's Odyssey: Andra
moi ennepe, Mousa, polytropon, whose mala polla
- the first word of the epic denotes the hero who will
face terrible challenges, mala polla, many bad things,
but in the center of the line we find polytropon, he who
traveled widely, also well versed (Douglas G. Kilday),
so the very first line gives us the briefest possible
summary of the epic: a hero faces awful challenges,
but he will survive ...

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Magdalenian words and compounds 2006/7

Part 51

POL LOP, PLO OLP, LPO OPL --- fortified dwellings

POL --- fortified dwelling; ancient Greek polis for town,
fortified dwelling, capital, German Bollwerk English
bulwark

LOP --- hedge or wall around a dwelling; ancient Greek
lopos for rind, shell, husk, English to envelop, French
envelopper enveloppe

PLO --- walls made in the wattle and daub technique;
ancient Greek plokos for texture, wickerwork, tissue,
fabric

OLP --- wealth and power concentrated in a fortified
dwelling; ancient Greek olbos for luck, blessing,
salvation, wealth, power

LPO --- the labyrinth of tents and huts and lanes
in between; ancient Greek labyrinthos

OPL --- protectors of a fortified dwelling; ancient
Greek hoplitaes for soldier

POL PLO --- fortified dwelling (pol) walls made in
the wattle and daube technique (plo); old Latin poplo
Latin populus Italian popolo French peuple English
people, also Latin populus (long o) for poplar tree,
as poplar upshots must have been used for poles,
while more flexible willow twigs were used for whities,
the horizontal interlacing

POL DOK --- fortified dwelling (pol) wooden poles,
beams and rafters (dok), woodhenge; Old English
folc English folk German Volk (originally inhabitants
of woodhenges, then, known in Middle Europe from
around 7 000 BP onward)

POL LAD --- fortified dwelling (pol) hill (lad); may be
the origin of the Roman Palatin

POL LAS --- fortified dwelling (pol) mountain (las);
may be the origin of Pallas, Pallas Athene

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