Re: proof that most etymologies are only fairy-tales

On Aug 8, 4:12 pm, Patrick Karl <jpk...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Franz Gnaedinger wrote:
A pregnant mammal bears. A pregnant woman gives
birth to a child. Magdalenians, I claim, placed their
newborns on a fur in order to keep them warm,
preferably a bear fur. Young mothers may have
carried their babies around in a bag made of a bear
hide, bearing the newborn outside her body. And
all these words - to bear (inside and outside the body),
birth, German gebären Geburt, ancient Greek byros
English fur, and a bear as provider of a warm and
soft fur - would have come from Magdalenian BIR
designating the fur whereon a newborn was laid.

And not only that, it would have been a *brown* bear's fur that would
have been preferred by the Magdalenian mothers, strengthening the
connection even further!

Now, people, don't killrate me!

The bear in the Lascaux cave is black but may originally
have been of a dark brown. The color of the cave bear
Ursus spelaeus was presumably a rather dark brown
(judging by the reconstructions I saw in the anthropological
and zoological museums of Zurich). Also beron brown may
come from BIR. My Magdalenian dictionary says that BIR
means fur, ancient Greek byros, especially the fur wherein
a newborn was laid. Now the Lascaux bear - disappearing,
hidden, reappearing - under the bull of the disappearing,
invisible and reappearing moon suggests that also a dead
chieftain was enveloped in fur, prefereably in bear fur,
whereupon he was placed in a cave or in the ground:
may he get a second life, as the bear emerges from
the cave in spring, as the moon is born again after he
disappears and keeps invisible for some time ... So we
should expect also derivatives of BIR in the context of
funerals. And there are such words: to bury, and the
barrows in southern England.

Human made things gave raise to words (an insight
from 1974/75). In this case the bear hide would have
been the origin of a plethora of words. A bear hide
is a human made thing insofar as bears are hunted
with human made weapons, then skinned with human
made knives, and then the furs are treated in such a way
as to become soft and durable.
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