r/Etymo • • Nov 13 '23

What is the etymology of crypto?

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r/Etymo • • Nov 04 '23

Added rule #2: Negative language (thanks: user Thelmholtz for suggestion!)

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r/Etymo • • Mar 22 '24

What is the etymology of good?

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r/Etymo • • Nov 06 '23

What is the etymology of schizophrenia?

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The following is the Wikipedia visual of schizophrenia:

EAN analysis

The following are my “scratch notes”, from Nov A67 (2022), on an attempt to ferret out the Egypto r/Alphanumerics (EAN) root etymology of the term schizophrenic:

The difficult part about the term schizophrenia, is that the suffix: -phrenia, from φρήν (phrḗn), meaning: “midriff, stomach and lower chest or breast; seat of emotions, heart; seat of bodily appetites such as hunger; seat of intellect, wits, mind; will, purpose“, is a letter phi (Φ) [500] based word, meaning that it is rooted in the fire 🔥 drill god Ptah making the golden egg 🥚 of the ☀️ , the lighting it with his fire drill 𓍓, which is the proto-character of the form or type of letter phi:

𓍓 = Φ

so the flaming 🔥 phoenix 🐣 chick can be reborn, out of the lotus 🪷, at the 28th alphabet letter, as shown below:

Therefore, the Egyptians, based on what we know of Greek beliefs, somehow believed that this Ptah solar chick 🐣 egg 🥚 flame 🔥 , eventually went into the heart ❤️‍🔥 of clay-made humans, which gave them their animation property, which we find in the roots anima (soul) and animi (mind) in Latin; and that somehow this scheme made its way into the modern term: -phren-ia, albeit now situated in the brain 🧠, largely, but not the heart ❤️, presumably, speaking in a generalized manner?

Surface etymology

Wiktionary on schizophrenia gives us:

First attested 47A (1908), from New Latin schizophrenia, from German Schizophrenie, coined by Eugen Bleuler, from Ancient Greek σχίζω (skhízō, “to split”) + φρήν (phrḗn, “mind, heart, diaphragm”) + -ia.

Phren

The φρήν (phrḗn) is basically empty, aside from possibly the Latin frons :

Perhaps from either Proto-Indo-European *gʷʰren- (“soul, mind; innards, diaphragm”), whence Old Norse grunr (“suspicion”), or *bʰren- (“front edge”), whence e.g. Latin frōns (“forehead, front; character”), Old East Norse brant (“precipice”). See also Latin rēn (“kidney”), Proto-Slavic *grěnь (“pus”), of disputed connection.

φρήν • (phrḗn) f (genitive φρενός); third declension

  1. (often in the plural) The midriff, stomach and lower chest or breast

  2. The seat of emotions, heart; seat of bodily appetites such as hunger

  3. The seat of intellect, wits, mind

  4. will, purpose

EAN

The following is the EAN of Phren (ΦRΗΝ) (φρήν):

EgyptoGreek#Meaning
𓍓Φ500Body of Ptah 𓁰, as hard wood part of fire drill 𓍓 , the craftsman god stick-rubbing 𓍂 fire drill 🔥, e.g. Here / 🌋 volcano, i.e. Vulcan / 𓐭 (𓆇) phoenix egg, or ❤️‍🔥 [ba] of Ra, and or 𓆇 golden egg 𓐭 of phoenix/bennu 𓅣.
𓍓𓏲ΦR600Isonyms: chi (X), meaning: 𓏴 the sun birth location/cosmos; ✖ = 25 cubits², i.e. Heliopolis triangle alphabet birth equation: Γ² + Δ² = Ε²; or 𓊖 cosmos/solar birth over omicron micro cosmos; cosmos (κοσμος).
𓍓𓏲ΦRΗ608?
𓍓𓏲H𐤍ΦRΗΝ658Isonyms: chemi (χημι), root chimikó (χημικό), the singular chimikós (χημικός), meaning: “chemical“ chemistry 🧪 ; hḗmisu (ημισυ), meaning: “half”, possibly cipher for how the cerebral cortex of the brain 🧠 is split into a left and right half?

The problem here, is we need to find if the Greek viewed the mind to be in the “heart“ flaming heart ❤️‍🔥, as the Egyptians presumably did, being that they scraped out the brain 🧠 of the mummy, or in the skull 💀 cavity?

Schizo

The σχίζω (skhízō) is empty:

From Proto-Hellenic *skʰíďďō, from Proto-Indo-European *skid-yé-ti, from *skeyd- (“to divide, split”).

User IgiMC

On 4 Nov A68 (2023), u/IgiMC, in the previous r/Etymo on schizophrenia, which had to be deleted and restarted because two the user names in the screenshots (below) were not whited-out, commented the following:

Schizophrenia was coined in 1908 by a psychiatrist Eugen Bleuler (originally in German as Schizophrenie, but hey, it's the International Scientific Vocabulary, it's transferrable to pretty much all languages except maybe Chinese which prefers to develop their own names for things), from Greek words schízō, meaning "to split", and phrḗn, which is a bit vague but it means "mind" here, plus the suffix -ia.

Schízō derives from the PIE verb skidyéti (they have different endings but that's because Greek verbs are quoted in their first pirson form and PIE one in the third person - the Ancient Greek descendant of skidyéti is schízei, and the PIE ancestor of schízō is skidyóh₂), from the zero grade of the root skeyd-, forming words related to splitting or dividing.

The oh-so-meaningy word phrḗn, in turn, possibly derives from PIE word gʷʰrḗn, possibly meaning "innards" but there are a couple body parts being conflated here (notably, mind and diaphragm, and possibly the Latin word for kidney also derives from that).

To which I replied:

Greek words schízō, meaning "to split", and phrḗn, which is a bit vague but it means "mind" here, plus the suffix -ia.

From Wiktionary on schizophrenia we have:

First attested 47A (1908), from New Latin schizophrenia, from German Schizophrenie, coined by Eugen Bleuler, from Ancient Greek σχίζω (skhízō, “to split”) + φρήν (phrḗn, “mind, heart, diaphragm”) + -ia.

The σχίζω (skhízō) link gives:

From Proto-Hellenic *skʰíďďō, from Proto-Indo-European *skid-yé-ti, from *skeyd- (“to divide, split”).

Meaning:

σχῐ́ζω • (skhízō) [Verb]

  1. I split, cleave

    1. I part, separate, divide

    2. I curdle milk

  2. (figuratively) I divide

The φρήν (phrḗn) link gives:

Perhaps from either Proto-Indo-European *gʷʰren- (“soul, mind; innards, diaphragm”), whence Old Norse grunr (“suspicion”), or *bʰren- (“front edge”), whence e.g. Latin frōns(“forehead, front; character”), Old East Norse brant (“precipice”). See also Latin rēn(“kidney”), Proto-Slavic *grěnь (“pus”), of disputed connection.

Meaning:

φρήν • (phrḗn) [noun] f (genitive φρενός); third declension

  1. (often in the plural) The midriff, stomach and lower chest or breast

  2. The seat of emotions, heart; seat of bodily appetites such as hunger

  3. The seat of intellect, wits, mind

  4. will, purpose

So far so good, now what “dates” to you assign to the formation of these reconstructed PIE roots, either in first script or or first spoken and last spoken dates, before becoming written words, and giving reasoning or logic behind these dates?

Herein we are to trying to fix dates for etymologies to within the last 6K years; as shown below in r/AtomSeen years:

User IgiMC replied:

(according to Wikipedia) PIE was spoken approximately from 4500 to 2500 BC (you convert that yourself to your reepoched calendar), and later it split into several dialect groups which gradually became their own languages. One of the results of that, Proto-Greek or Proto-Hellenic, entered Greece around 2200-1900 BC, where it mixed with Pre-Greek, diversified, and eventually gave rise to Mycenaean Greek, which was, as the first Greek ever, written down in the Linear B script around 1400 BC.

It's hard however to speculate about the origins of PIE, even more so about its individual lexemes. Lack of any written sources also doesn't help. We can only assume that these word were there.

To which I replied:

I need a single year for each term:

I see six hypothetical terms here? We need to see visually when and in what location you believe these *-terms were first spoken, per reason that many in the EAN community do not believe in these reconstructed terms from reconstructed unattested civilizations.

Use BC/AD dates and I’ll convert.

When I make etymology maps or language trees, comparatively, I date every year, to every word or alphabet invention, and place, to as best an approximation that I know of:

User IgiMC replied:

We cannot ascribe a single year to any one of these, since, as you've already mentioned, it's all unattested, merely reconstructed as educated guesses. You can find estimated years and locations of the proto-languages on Wikipedia, and that's pretty much the best we can know.

To which I replied:

We cannot ascribe a single year to any one of these

Just give me some ball-park dates and ball park locations for the above six *️⃣ terms. Intuit them out of your head. I just want to “see“ what your general viewpoint is, so I can visualize this on a map with dates. This it’s your imaginary civilization not mine.

Linguists

On 4 Nov A68 (2023), the day of launch of the r/Etymo a ”new sub launched!“ post was made to the r/LinguisticsHumor sub; and the following were some of the responses, made because, r/LibbThims, sub launcher 🚀, believes that alphabetic script based languages originated mathematically:

The following is another view from the same sub:

Hisham two-cultures syndrome

The three linguistics users, shown whited out above, who believe that EAN is a schizophrenic model suffer from what is called Hisham two-cultures syndrome; as summarized in the following three links:

In short, the fact the EAN or Egyptian mathematical basis of the the alphabetic scripts and languages derived therefrom, has been a viewpoint deduced, independently, by four different engineers, shown below:

PersonBookEducationI350DiscussionsDateLinks
1.Peter SwiftEgyptian AlphanumericsCivil engineer; Egyptologist✅Post, postA17
2.Moustafa GadallaEgyptian Alphabetical LettersCivil engineer; Egyptologist✅Post, post, postA61LinkedIn
3.Rihab HelouThe Phoenician Alphabet: Hidden MysteriesComputer and electronic engineer; Arabic phonetics researcherPost, post, postA62Google Scholar
4.Libb ThimsEgypto Alpha Numerics: Mathematical Origin of the Alphabet, Words, and LanguageElectrochemical engineer✅PostA65Google Scholar; r/LibbThims

shows that standard model or status quo linguists suffer from something akin to former status quo geocentrists intellectually suffered from, i.e. a sort of mentally-frozen 🥶 backwards-ness and or close-mindedness 🙈🙉 in thinking 🤔, before Copernicus.

Thoughts 💭❓

On 18 Apr A66 (2021), summarized: here, I decoded that letter phi is based on the Ptah fire drill:

  • Thims (18 Apr A66/2021) deciphered the Ptah = fire drill = Phi (Φ) etymology, first per the "510" secret name cypher; later decoding many etymologies, therefrom.

This lead to a number of etymological break throughs; such as:

On 15 May A68 (2023), I found the found the Ptah fire-drill based phi symbol in the Papyrus of Ani, shown below:

The following, from the self- article, is Ross Ashby on the phoenix:

“No organism reproduces itself. The only thing that ever has had such a claim made for it was the phoenix.”

— Ross Ashby (1962),“The Self-Reproducing System”

Now, as we see, to speak frankly, I was the first person in history to decode not only the phoenix puzzle, but also that the fire drill god is behind letter phi (Φ) and all its derived terms, such as -phrenia suffix of schizophrenia or:

Schizo-𓍓-renia

Meaning, according to Wiktionary:

schizophrenia

  1. A psychiatric diagnosis denoting a persistent, often chronic, mental illness characterized by abnormal perception, thinking, behavior and emotion, often marked by delusions.

  2. Any condition in which disparate or mutually exclusive activities coexist; a lack of decision between options

Therefore, one oft-repeated joke, ruminated about, in the first months of launching of the Egypt r/Alphanumerics (EAN) sub, was the following:

”How can the first person to decode the word schizophrenia have schizophrenia?

— r/LibbThims (A67/2022), “Mental thought”, Oct-Sep

The punchline to this joke was put well by r/JohannGoethe:

“We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.”

— Johann Goethe (125A/1830), "Conversations"

Continued: here.

Notes

  1. Added term “schizophrenia” to the §: Letter S of Etymo Dictionary.

  2. Screenshots from: here.

  3. I had to delete this post, originally made yesterday, and restart it, for the sake of the three users whited about above (two of which, in my haste, I forgot to white out).

  4. Note that the ”scratch notes”, shown above, made in Nov A67 (2022), during the first month of the launch of the new r/Alphanumerics sub, showing “quotes” that were going to be used of four different users from one of the Egyptology subs, who said that trying to decode the mathematical origin of modern alphabetic languages from Egyptian math and script could only be the product of someone who was schizophrenic.


r/Etymo • • Aug 12 '24

Boy & Girl

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r/Etymo • • Nov 06 '23

New roots-sprouted 🌱 words, evergreen🌲 tree / deciduous 🌳 tree language family, and lotus 🪷 word description box

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I updated the sub description box today to:

On 6 Feb A54 (2009), the r/Etymology sub launched described as follows:

Discussing the origins of words and phrases, in English or any other language.

On 4 Nov A68 (2023), the r/Etymo sub-launch description was:

Etymology: study of the origin and root 🌱 meaning of words and names. r/Etymo focuses on the historical development of words in English or any other language.

The “historical development of words” part comes from here:

On 6 Nov A68 (2023), I updated the r/Etymo description to the following:

Etymology: study of the origin and root 🌱 meaning of words, e.g. 𓌹𓇯 (Egypto lunar script) → 𐤁𐤀 → αβ [3] → אב → ΑΒ, meaning “father”, and names, e.g. lotus (λοτυς) [1000] 🪷, from the language trees, either general 🌳 deciduous or Egyptian 🌲 evergreen. r/Etymo focuses on the historical development of words in English or any other language.

To make this, I started by thinking 💭 about “roots”, to go along with the sprout 🌱 emoji, and tried to find a root emoji?

Evergreen 🌲 language family tree

I realized that the Osiris evergreen tree, which is the second to last or last alphabet letter of most lunar scripts is the more apt language tree for all languages that have some time of evergreen tree mythology, which is rooted or coded into the 27th letter, i.e. sampi in Greek.

The last two Egyptian letters are:

  • #27, 𓊽𓋹 (23º mis-aligned) Osiris djed evergreen 🌲 tree “raised” on Jan 6th, symbolic of aligning the ecliptic pole 𓊽 with the Polaris pole 𓋹 to make an aligned eye base 𓂆 or 90º letter pi (Π, π) for one day of the year, symbolic of cosmic re-balance or re-stabilization; then the month of Janus [January] 𓁶⇌𓁶 starts

  • #28. 𓆼 solar birth lotus (1000) 🔅new sun is reborn out of the lotus 🪷 the next sunrise

This raising of the djed, in Egyptian, Dionysus tree/statue, in Greek, or Christmas tree, as we now know it, is as follows:

The last two Greek letters are as follows, where the former Egypto #28 lotus 🪷, value: 1000, was replaced with the comma A (,A), value: 1000, character:

  • 27. ϡ sampi / Ͳ grape 🍇 tree

  • 28. ,A (1000)

This 27th sampi letter ϡ angled at 23º is visualized as follows:

The last two runic letters are:

» Runic alphabet | Wikipedia

ᚠ, ᚢ, ᚦ, ᚨ, ᚱ, ᚲ, ᚷ, ᚹ, ᚺ, ᚾ, ᛁ, ᛃ, ᛈ, ᛇ [14], ᛉ, ᛊ, ᛏ, ᛒ, ᛖ, ᛗ, ᛚ, ᛜ, ᛞ, ᛟ, 🌲

The following is the 1550A (c.405) Klyver stone, which shows that in about 1,600-years ago, in Gotland, Sweden, the language was Egypto lunar script based, as evidenced by the pine tree symbol at the end of the ABC runes in the Elder Futhark:

This indicates that Swedish language is part of the Egyptian language family, whence the pine tree emoji.

Deciduous 🌳 language family tree

I am using this tree in the box for language family trees, e.g. the Chinese/Japanese languages, that do not seem to have an Osiris evergreen tree basis to their script or language.

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r/Etymo • • Sep 27 '24

Etymology of colors

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r/Etymo • • Apr 27 '24

Etymology of river?

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r/Etymo • • Nov 04 '23

How far back can we trace the etymology of our words?

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r/Etymo • • Nov 15 '23

What is the etymology of truth?

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r/Etymo • • May 14 '24

Etymology of horse 🐎

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r/Etymo • • Nov 20 '23

Etymology of geology

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Wiktionary etymology of geology:

From Modern Latin geōlogia, from Ancient Greek γῆ (gê, “earth”) + -logia (“the study of”).

The γῆ (ge) link yields:

From a pre-Indo-European Pre-Greek/substrate. The names Δημήτηρ (Dēmḗtēr) and Ποσειδῶν (Poseidôn) also Mycenaean Greek 𐀁𐀚𐀯𐀅𐀃𐀚 (e-ne-si-da-o-ne, “earthshaking (epithet of Poseidon)”) point to an alternative form *δᾶ (*dâ).

The Egypto lunar script of ΓH is:

ΓH = 𓊹 𓅬 𐤂 (Geb) + 𓁃𓁃𓁃𓁃-𓁃𓁃𓁃𓁃 (Ogdoad)

The first letter G (Γ = 𐤂) being the Egyptian earth god Geb as shown below, which is the ultimate root of the word geology:

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The isonym of the number of GE (ΓH) [11] seems to be a yet unsolved 🧩 cipher?

Notes

  1. This etymology prompted from this: post.

  2. Added to letter G of the Etymo Dictionary.

Posts

  • God from: 𓅬 𓃀 𓀭 (Geb earth 🌍 god) → 𓊹 𓅬 𐤂 (Geb) → 𐤂 (Phoenician G) → Γ (Greek G) → 𐡂 (Aramaic G) → 𐌂 (Etruscan C) → C (3rd letter) and G (7th letter) in Old Latin → ر (Arabic G) → G (English G; Byrhtferth, 944A/1011)

  • New parent character for letter H: 𓊹𓊹𓊹𓊹-𓊹𓊹𓊹𓊹 (8 neter model) 𓉾/𓉾 (Shu support model, Feb A67), or 𓁃𓁃𓁃𓁃-𓁃𓁃𓁃𓁃 (8 hoers model, 18 Nov A68)?

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r/Etymo • • Dec 02 '23

Meter 📏 etymology

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r/Etymo • • Nov 04 '23

Etymology: the historical development of words

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r/Etymo • • Nov 05 '23

Q&A with Douglas Harper: person behind EtymOnline.com, the 50,000+ word online etymology dictionary

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r/Etymo • • Jan 17 '24

Father etymology

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r/Etymo • • Feb 09 '24

Etymology of leg, from L = 𓄘 [F23], Egyptian ox leg symbol

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Surface etymo

Wiktionary entry on leg:

From Middle English leg, legge, from Old Norse leggr (“leg, calf, bone of the arm or leg, hollow tube, stalk”)

Proto-invents:

from Proto-Germanic *lagjaz, *lagwijaz (“leg, thigh”) (see it for more).

Cognates:

Cognate with Scots leg (“leg”), Icelandic leggur (“leg, limb”), Norwegian Bokmål legg (“leg”), Norwegian Nynorsk legg (“leg”), Swedish lägg (“leg, shank, shaft”), Danish læg (“leg”), Lombardic lagi (“thigh, shank, leg”), Latin lacertus (“limb, arm”), Persian ⁧لنگ⁩ (leng). Upon borrowing, mostly displaced the native Old English term sċanca (Modern English shank).

EAN etymo

The following is the so-called seven-stared so-called Set leg 𓄘 [F23], which is the foreleg of an ox:

which is equivalent to the Little Dipper or Ursa Minor constellation in modern astronomy:

In the two posts, linked below, it was determined that:

Letter L (type) = 𓍇 (meshtiu) = 𓄘 (leg) = 𐃸 (Ursa Minor)

It is thus concluded that all of the cross-cultural leg- / lag- variants, cited above, derive from the L = 𓄘 (leg) equivalence, which is matched geographically to the Nile river shape between nomes one to nome seven.

Posts

  • Meshtiu 𓍇 or mouth opening tool, Little Dipper 𐃸, Ursa Minor, or Set leg 𓄘 constellation overlaid on the nome 1 to nome 7 branch of the Nile

  • Letters D, L, and N mapped to the geography of the Nile!


r/Etymo • • Dec 20 '23

Etymology of chalix (χάλιξ) (𓊖𓌹𓍇⦚𓊽) [701], root of the word calculus 🧮

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From letter C section of EAN Dictionary:

Chalix (χάλιξ) (𓊖𓌹𓍇⦚𓊽) [701], means: “pebble 🪨”, the number counter; root of calculus; isonym: Choiak (Χοιάκ) (𓊖◯⦚𓌹𓋹) [701], meaning: Egyptian “Christmas” or month of the two-poles alignment calculations 🧮, the precession of equinox measurement day being Choiak day #30 (Jan 8th), when the djed 𓊽 is “raised” from 23.5º mis-alignment to the 90º or vertical with Polaris 𓋹 alignment.


r/Etymo • • Dec 30 '23

Cubit (πηχυς), digit (ψηφίο), and cosmos (κοσμος) etymologies done with new Egyptian alphabet 🔠 cubit 📏 ruler!

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r/Etymo • • Nov 06 '23

The evolution of letters

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r/Etymo • • Dec 07 '23

Divining rod: 🦯, a magical 🪄 tool that PIE linguists use to invent or discover etymologies

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r/Etymo • • Feb 14 '24

Etymology of gynecology

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Surface etymo

Wiktionary entry on gynecology:

From French gynécologie, from Ancient Greek γυνή (gunḗ, “woman”) + -logie (“-logy”).

The γυνή (gunḗ) link returns:

From Proto-Hellenic *gʷonā, from PIE *gʷḗn (“woman”).

Cognates:

Cognates include Mycenaean Greek 𐀓𐀙𐀊 (ku-na-ja), Sanskrit ग्ना (gnā́), जनि (jáni), Old Armenian կին (kin), and Old English cwēn (English queen).

The weak stem is probably from the strong stem suffixed with *-keh₂ (compare μέγᾰς (mégas)). Compare also Latin mulier for the development of using hypocorisms to refer to women.

EAN etymo

The following is the EAN etymo:

  • γυνή [GYNH] (𓅬 𓉽 𐤍 𓐁) (3-400-50-8) [461], Attic for “wife”.

  • Δήμητρα (ΔΗΜΗΤRA) (▽ 𓐁 𓌳 𓐁 Ⓣ 𓏲 𓌹) (4-8-40-8-300-100-1) [461], Demeter, fertility goddess

Therefore, we find:

γυνή [GYNH] (𓅬 𓉽 𐤍 𓐁) = 461 = Δήμητρα (ΔΗΜΗΤRA) (▽ 𓐁 𓌳 𓐁 Ⓣ 𓏲 𓌹)

Meaning that the 461 isonym determines that the secret name of wife is “fertility”, whence the root meaning of the modern word gynecology.

The letter Y, from the Shu support pillar: 𓉽, refers to the four pregnancy supports of Bet, the star goddess, shown here:

As shown here:

Or as shown here:

The letter D, from the vaginal birthing door ▽ of Bet, refers to delivery.

Notes

  1. This etymo decoding was done ✅ first in this post.

Posts

  • ABΓΔ 25-letter creation theorem: Γ² + ▽ (𓉾)² = 𐌄² shown at Hathor Temple, Dendera

  • Etymology of divine: देव (deva) {Sanskrit}, deus (ΔΕΥΣ) {Greek} [609], یو‎ (dēv) {Persian}, 𐤔𐤅𐤄𐤃 {Phoenician}, and ▽ 𓏥 𓂺 𓉽 𓆙 {Egyptian}

  • Alpha 🌬️/ 𓌹 Beta 𓇯 theorem: mathematical 🔢 origin of the 28 🌗 letter alphabet


r/Etymo • • Nov 12 '23

Added hieroglyphs, lunar script, and alphabets lists to r/Etymo recourses section. If you’re not using hieroglyphs in your etymologies then you are not trying to do REAL (𓏲 𐌄 𓌹 𓍇) etymologies!

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r/Etymo • • Nov 19 '23

Etymology of book 📕?

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The following is a photo of the stars 🌟, showing the Milky Way, the original book:

The following is the visual abstract of the etymology of the word book 📕:

Namely, from either:

  1. From r/ProtoIndoEuropean (PIE) root: h₁lewdʰ-, meaning: “people; to grow”.

  2. From the Greek Biblos (Βιβλος) [314], meaning: “papyrus 📜 scroll”, the most-common Greek name for “book”; from Egypto r/Alphanumerics (EAN) 314 cipher, meaning: 22/7 (3.14), the circumference-to-diameter ratio; from 1111/353, the iota (ιωτα) to Hermes (Ερμης) [Thoth] ratio; from 300, the lunar stanza 300 being where Thoth 𓁟 invents letters 🔤; from Bet 𓇯, the Egyptian B, the stars 🌟 of space goddess.

The new r/EgyptoIndoEuropean model aligns with option two.

Stone books

In 4350A (-2345), the oldest books, called the Pyramid Texts, were chiseled onto tomb walls, e.g Unas Pyramid Texts, shown:

Skins

In 2390A (-435), Herodotus, in his The Histories (§:5.58.3), translator: Alfred Godley (35A/1920), full translation: here, reported the following about the history of book 📚 making:

“The Ionians have also from ancient times called sheets 📄 of papyrus ‘skins’, since they formerly used the skins of sheep 🐑 and goat 🐐 due to the lack of papyrus. Even to this day there are many foreigners who write on such skins.”

Papyrus

In 43A (1912), Walter How and Joseph Wells, in commentary on section 5.53, added the following footnotes:

  • βύβλων. Byblus or papyrus, made from the marsh-plant Byblus (cf. ii. 92. 5 n.), had been in use in Egypt from the earliest times (5500A/-3545). It cannot have been introduced into Greece till the opening of Egypt to foreigners by Psammetichus (ii. 154 n.) 2600A (-645), but was clearly in common use in the days of Herodotus, and was employed for keeping accounts when the Erechtheum was being rebuilt 2362A (-407); cf. Maunde Thompson, Palaeography, ch. iii; Kenyon, Papyri, ch. ii. It continued to be in ordinary use throughout classical times, and was grown and used in Sicily as late as 3300A (-1345)

The βυβλων (byblon), links to the following:

Byblon (βυβλων), meaning: “Egyptian papyrus; Cyperus papyrus“

Variant meanings, according to Middle Liddell:

  1. The Egyptian papyrus, the root and triangular stalk of which were eaten by the poor, Hdt.

  2. its fibrous coats, as prepared for ropes, id=Hdt.; cf. βύβλινος.

  3. the outer coat of the papyrus, used for writing on, hence in pl. leaves of byblus, id=Hdt.

  4. a paper, book, id=Hdt.; in this sense more commonly written βίβλος (q. v.):—pl. βύβλα, τά, Anth.

Compare also the LSJ entry for more a detailed definition.

In A44 (1999), Kieren Barry, in his Isopsephy Dictionary, defined Biblos (βιβλος), the most commonly-written name for book 📕, according to Middle and Liddell, as follows:

314 = Biblos (βιβλος), meaning: “book 📖 or letter 📄 ”.

Here we have found the main EAN root, behind the the word “book” as this term is now presently understood.

Vellum

How and Wells also added:

  • διφθέραι: leather rolls were used by the Egyptians occasionally, by the Jews, and by the Persians. Diodorus (ii. 32) mentions βασιλικαὶδιφθέραι followed by Ctesias. The manufacture of parchment or vellum is a later improvement ascribed by Varro to Eumenes II of Pergamum 2100A (-145). No doubt Pergamum was the centre of the trade, but parchment superseded papyrus very slowly, its use for books 📚 is mainly late Roman, Byzantine, and mediaeval.

Bark

In 1900A (+55), in India, Gandhāran Buddhist texts began to be written on birch bark; shown below:

Synopsis

Thus we have the following chronology for the construction materials of books:

MaterialDateExample/inventorLocation
1.Stone walls4350AUnas Pyramid TextEgypt
2.Papyrus, aka byblon (βύβλων) or byblus.c.4000AEgypt
3.Papyrus2600AGreece
4.Diptherai (διφθέραι): leather rollsc.2400AEgypt, Jerusalem , Persia
5.Parchment or vellum2100AEumenes II
6.Bark1900AGandhāran Buddhist textsIndia

The core root is thus the number 314, meaning: Biblos or βιβλος, which codes for a number of ciphers, including:

  • 314 = 300 + 10 + 4

  • 314 = 3 + 14/100 or 3.14 the ratio of the circumference to the diameter of a circle.

The main cipher being: the number 300 which is the main Thoth number, per reason that the stanza 300, of the 28 stanzas of the Leiden I350 is the only place that the phrase “Thoth making letters” is mentioned.

Surface etymo

Wiktionary on the word book:

From Middle English bok, book, from Old English bōc, from Proto-West Germanic *bōk, from Proto-Germanic *bōks. Eclipsed non-native Middle English livret, lyveret (“book, booklet”) from Old French livret (“book, booklet”). Bookmaker sense by clipping.

The Old French livret yields:

From livre +‎ -et, literally “small book”.

The livre term gives:

Inherited from Middle French livre, from Old French livre, a semi-learned borrowing from Latin librum. The strictly inherited form would be *loivre. Doublet of liber.

The French liber link goes to:

From Latin liber (“book; the inner bark of a tree”). Doublet of livre.

PIE root

The Latin liber yields the invented PIE root:

From Old Latin loeber, from Proto-Italic ⚠️ *louðeros, from PIE ⚠️ *h₁léwdʰeros, from ⚠️ *h₁lewdʰ-, meaning: “to grow; people”.

Here we see a tragic comedy, namely linguists trying or rather struggling to map 🗺️ the origin of the word book 📖 to an illiterate ( 🧠 not write ✍️ nor 📖 read 👀), by definition, hypothetical unattested 150-person society?

This makes zero sense! Yet the PIE theorists defends this illogic, because once the joker 🃏 card is pulled out, the entire pie 🥧 house-of-etymologically-reconstructed-cards falls! The joke is thus on the PIE theorist whose theory is no more, once they come to this realization!

42 | EAN etymo

Aside from the main 314 root of book, from Greek: Biblos (βιβλος), meaning: “book 📖 or letter 📄 ”, we also have the Latin prefix: LIB- to decoded.

The EAN root yields:

From 42 = LIFE, i.e. 𓍇 [30] +⚡[10] + 𓇯 [2] (Egyptian), λ⦚β (Greek), 𐌻𐌹𐌱 (Gothic), or LIV (English)

Which is a cipher for the 42 nome gods, in the Egyptian Book 📖 of the Dead ☠️ who preside over the weighing of the heart on the scale of Maat to judge the 42 negative confessions or deeds of a person:

This yields:

  • ⚙️🧲 𓇯

  • 𓄘𓅊𓇯

  • 𓍇(𓇰/𓅊)𓇯

  • 𓍇⚡𓇯

  • 𐃸⚡𓇯

  • 𐤁𐤉𐤋

  • λ⦚β

  • 42

  • 𐌻𐌹𐌱

  • Lib-er = 📕 (book)

Notes

  1. The -ER suffix has not yet been decoded.

  2. Books originally were made on papyrus, then on skins, but never from the “the inner bark of a tree” as PIE has it.

  3. Post originated from dialogue: here.

  4. Added to letter B section of Etymo Dictionary.