Re: k-like sounds in English and other European languages

On Oct 16, 1:48 pm, Franz Gnaedinger <f...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Oct 16, 8:17 am, Franz Gnaedinger <f...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Oct 13, 2:50 am, analys...@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

amygdala doesn't have the unvoiced-voiced apposition conflict and
amazingly appears not to be a compound word.

Depends how far you go back in time. Look at
the word Magdalenian. I postulate MUC DAL
as origin, meaning valley (dal) of the bulls (muc).
Hints for that compound are found in the region
of Mont Bégo in the southeast corner of France.
The compound became Magdalenian in English
and Madeleine in French. How it could account
for amygdala, a brain center in the limbic system,
I can't say, but you can be rather sure that the
dg sound is own to an ancient or very ancient
compound. In my Magdalenian dictionary there
is only one GD, namely GDhA for joyous, a word
of the permutation group of DhAG for able, the
meme of this permutation group being good.
Hypothetical GDhA became Greek gathosynae
for joy. You can see here how different languages
manage the rather difficult gd sound: reduced
to a -d in French (Madeleine), rarely occuring
in English (Magdalenian as a term of archaeology),
problem of pronounciation solved with an inserted
vocal in Greek (gathosynae).

The amygdala centers in the brain are almond
shaped, Greek amygdalon 'almond'. I can now
see a possible link from MUC DAL meaning
valley (val) of bulls (muc) to amygdalon,
namely handaxes: one such weapon and tool
in the shape of an almond could have been
used in hunting and carving bulls. If so,
amygdalon has a completely unexpected
etymology that could not have been unveiled
in any other way. Now there is one more
interesting derivative. English almond is close
to German Mond 'moon'. Marie E.P. König,
on whose work I rely in my interpretations of
cave art, demonstrated very convincingly that
the bull symbolized the moon, from Paleolithic
to Celtic times. The moon was a bull climbing
heaven, traveling across heaven, lighting on
earth, disappearing in the ground, traversing
the Underworld, emerging from the ground,
and climbing the sky again. Before disappearing
into the Underworld, and after emerging from it,
he must have been seen for a while in a bull
valley - in some far away bull valleys that would
have been the topic of Paleolithic lore and
mythology, and so it came that a polished form
of MUC DAL became German Mond ... As for
the gd sound: it became nd in English almond
and German Mandel, also in German Mond.

Magdalenian reached Asia Minor via Göbekli Tepe
and left traces in all surrounding regions. Magdalenian
MUC for bull survived in Myk- of Mykenae, stronghold
of the Zeus bull, and in Mi- of Mi-Nu-The Minuthe
Minos Minoan Minotaur. The Minoans came from
Ebla in Syria, the Biblical Minut where the best wheat
was grown, and where a Minotaur was worshipped
(a man with the head of a bull). Mi-Nu-The is given
as head of a bull (mi), a visual pun of a bull leaper
standing on the feet on the hands on the feet (nu),
and a tree of life (the), and this in hieroglyphic Minoan,
in Linear A, and in Linear B. The language of Linear A
is a NW Semitic dialect. Hebrew megedh el 'the Lord's
fruit' for almond seems to me folk etymology. The Bible
teems with folk etymology. Or should one call it religious
etymology? words and compounds that were no longer
understood were given new sense in the context of
a religious belief.
.

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