Re: proof that most etymologies are only fairy-tales
- From: Craoibhin66@xxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 4 Aug 2008 00:21:04 -0700 (PDT)
On Aug 4, 9:29 am, Franz Gnaedinger <f...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I derive bear German Bär from
Magdalenian
One point.
BIR
ancient Greek byros English fur: a bear was the
furry one, the animal growing a precious fur that
was used for giving warm in the harsh Ice Age
winters. The actual word for bear was ARC
wherefrom Latin ursus. ARC TYR --- cave
bear (arc) he who overcomes (tyr), an Ice Age
hero who took it up with a cave bear, a monster
bigger than a grizzly. ARC TYR survives in king
Arthur who fought a dragon for three days and
nights and finally won. The myth of dragons
originated from skulls and other bones of the
long extinct cave bear Ursus spelaeus found
in caves. Being able to cope with a cave bear
was really something. Every young man can
buy a ring for his girl friend, but imagine hunting
a cave bear with the weapons of CroMagnons
in order to present your lovely with a warm fur
and a bear tooth on a sinew for an amulett ...
Magdalenian
Two points.
words are embedded in permutation
groups that provide more information. The one
of BIR is concerned with fertility and offspring.
If you consult my
Magdalenian
Three points. Well, that's at least a hat trick. Pity there was no
Göbekli Tepe in this one. Maybe I should start counting "I", "my",
"me" and "mine", too.
dictionary you'll
find that BIR means the fur wherein a newborn
was laid in order to keep it warm, and this may
preferably have been a bear fur. The feelings
toward bears were ambivalent, they were feared,
of course, but also admired, bear mothers for
their courage in defending their cubs, and so,
in Celtic times, the female bear was worshipped
as a mother goddess. English to bear and birth
and German gebären Geburt may be seen in this
context, while evidence that bears were actually
named for their precious fur comes from the old
German word petz 'bear' petze 'female bear',
surviving as Meister Petz in fables and fairy tales.
A petz can also bristle up, stand on end (Grimm,
Wörterbuch, quote from Hagedorn), so petz must
be akin to German Pelz English pelt, both from
Latin pellis that is also present in German Fell 'fur'.
.
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