Re: a curiosity discovered while researching Franz's query

On May 27, 3:02 am, analys...@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
On May 26, 4:11 pm, f...@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

On May 26, 6:33 pm, analys...@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

Franz, Zero in Sanskrit is Shunya.

It also stands for empty, void etc.

Thanks for the information. Is there no word
resembling English nul? or perhaps Latin nihil?

Na Nih Nir are prefixes of negation.  I can;t think of anything else

Marie E.P. König identified the horse as Paleolithic
symbol of the sun, and the bull as symbol of the moon.
Relying on the signs marking the bulls in the rotunda
of the Lascaux cave I reconstructed these lunar
periods: 3 days of the young moon, 6 days of the
waxing moon, 9 days of the full moon, 6 days of
the wanig moon, 3 days of the old moon, and
alternately 3 or 2 days of the empty moon, while
lunations are counted in the mode 30 29 30 29 30
29 30 29 30 29 30 ... days or nights for 1 2 3 4 5
6 7 8 9 10 11 ... lunations. The 3 days of the young
moon were called GEN, and the 3 or 2 days of the
empty moon (German Leermond) were called by
the inverse NEG. The first word is present in
Genesis and gene, the second in negative.
The word for the full moon would have been LUN
present in Latin luna, and the word for the empty
moon would have been NUL, present in English
nul and German Null 'zero'. Now the Sanskrit
negations you mention could be derivatives
of NEG and perhaps also of NUL. And if Latin
nihil 'nothing' comes from NUL, then I see
a possibility of deriving Sanskrit shunya from
the same word, NUL nihil (shu)nya (de)ny.

Jaya = victory or be victorious and the other meanings you have
mentioned in sanskrit from the verbal root ji.

I hoped that I could claim jaya as derivative of
SAI for life, existence, but I have no example
of how S- could have become j-.

Life (all with long i)  jIv,jIva,JIvana  (live, living thing,
(livelihood, life))

Here I think of Magdalenian -: I -: or LIL (produce
the sound given as -: by touching both lips with
the tip of the tongue) present in CER -: I -: as
name of the life giver, namely the beautiful hind
in the Altamira cave who licked moon bulls into life,
thus creating time, lunations of 30 29 30 29 30 ...
days or night. This word has again many derivatives,
English life and love, German Leben and Liebe,
Ugaritic dd 'beloved', Phoenician Dido 'loved one',
and I could see the same word present in -lv-
above.

Joy probably has at least a dozen synonyms Ananda, moda, nanda, prIti,
ullAsa are some that are familiar to me.

I hoped for something like English joy and French
joie that I could link with Jaya and derive from SAI.
Will have to consult the big Sanskrit dictionary in
the library. Anyway, Sanskrit is a most venerable
language and has deep roots reaching far back
into the Paleolithic era.
.

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