Re: Greek Psi

On Feb 24, 8:58 am, f...@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
On Feb 20, 4:40 pm, grammatim <gramma...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Feb 20, 9:34 am, wrschmi...@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

I was wondering if anyone here could tell me (1) whether any Greek
words beginning with or containing psi have any IE cognates. and (2)
if those words Gk could have been formed by eliding the vowel that
originally existed between pi and sigma, say, akin to the way Gk words
beginning with "pt" were formed from PIE pet-. Thanks.very much for
any help.

If you look up, say, "psycho-" in Calvert Watkins's American Heritage
Dictionary of Indo-European Roots [that happen to occur in English
words], you find that he ascribes it to a root *bhes-.

But if you check many other ps- words in the index, you see that he
considers the -s- to be intrusive.

I explain Greek psychae 'breath, life, soul' and Sanskrit
-psu- 'breath' via SAI for life, existence, emphatic form
pSAI. DAI means protected area, in cave art represented
by tectiform signs (more or less rectangles), while the
comparative form SAI is represented by dots, often lines
and fields of dots. Red dots on walls of Neolithic houses
in Switzerland would have said: May this house be blessed
with life, may it see many children ...

Michel Lorblanchet very convincingly demonstrated how
cave art was produced: by blowing and spitting colors
on the walls and ceilings of a cave. The painters saw
animals in the natural shapes of the rock and called
them forth by adding color, giving them life, as it were,
life and a soul, via their own breath and spittle. Healer
shamans chew herbs and roots and bark and spat
the mixture on the skin of a patient and rubbed it in,
enhancing the efficacy of the herbs with their own
life restoring powers in their breath and spittle (in
modern terms: spittle is antiseptic). They saw animals
lick their wounds, and they saw animal mothers lick
their newborns. Altamira is famous for its many bulls in
compact form, yet by far the biggest animal is a large
hind licking the horns of a young and small bull under
her - licking this bull into life. She is the divine hind
CER -: I -: (produce the sound given as -: by touching
both lips with the tip of the tongue) licking moon bulls
into life, thus creating time, lunations of 30 29 30 29
30 29 30 29 30 29 30 ... days, time for us, time for
leading our lives, for existing, SAI, emphatic pSAI.
Have a look at the wonderful hind:
www.seshat.ch/home/hind1.JPG

In cave art, bulls represent the moon, horses the sun,
and cave walls (above the ledges) and ceilings often
the sky (Marie E.P. König). A very frequent sign are
hand negatives. A hand was placed on a wall, then
red or black color was blown and spit on the hand,
then the hand was removed, leaving a bright hand star
on the wall, claiming a place in the beyond, a second
life in the sky, an abode on the bank of the heavenly
river, on the shore of the heavenly lake CA LAK. The
soul was considered an airy substance leaving the
body upon death (animam efflare in Latin, exhale
the soul) whereupon it was bound to traverse the
Underworld KAL, and when it was a worthy soul it
was allowed to return and climb the sky and dwell
in a heavenly abode. The name of this would have
been SAI CA or emphatic pSAI CA, life SAI or pSAI
in the sky CA, wherefrom Greeky psychae.

If my explanation holds, pSAI was the origin of PIE
*bhes- '+- to blow' and not the other way round,
Greek ps- in psychae is not a contraction of *bhes-,
but *bhes- a spreading open of pS to p-s followed
by a softening bh-s bhes. Why not simply *bhes-
'to blow'? because there is another component
involved, not only warm and wet air, breathing,
but also spittle, quintessence of life in the opinion
of a very ancient time. A relict of that very ancient
belief is the way actors encourage each other by
saying toi toi toi, imitating a triple spat, wishing
each other luck that way, ultimately a good life
or simply life.

(Going through the relatively short list of Greek
words beginning on ps- I found none that I could
explain as contraction of P vowel S.)

For everyone who can read (I expect lurkers can
read while some members of sci.lang surely can't,
and reading i s a highly demanding art, Goethe
said), well, for all who can read, and can go to the
begin of my message, and know that on this here
planet and in the western world we begin reading
at the top, with what we call the first word of the
first line: I began my message saying, and I quote:

I explain Greek psychae 'breath, life, soul' via ...

I explain means I explain, what follows is my explanation.
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