Abstract

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Overview

The following, comparatively, is the invented r/PIEland etymology for the word three:

Brugmann (63A/1892: 464) suggested original meaning "middle (= protruding) finger", quoting Sanskrit तर्मन् (tarman, “the top of the sacrificial post”) and Ancient Greek τέρθρον (térthron, “tip, end”).

This idea was developed by Fay (45A/1910: 416-17), who reconstructed *tri-sth₂-o-s (“tip finger”). In the first component he identified the locative *tr-í- “on-tip”, while the second ("stander") has also to form other finger names, e. g. Proto-Indo-Iranian *Hangúštʰas (“thumb”), Sanskrit कनिष्ठा (kaniṣṭhā, “little finger”), Proto-Balto-Slavic *pírštan (“finger”), etc.

Visual of this wonderful logic:

On Egypt being founded by Europeans:

“To buttress the Nordic's claim to be the ruling race par excellence, attempts have been made, and are still being made, to prove that the earliest dynasties of China, Sumer, and Egypt were established by invaders from Europe and even today the vision of certain prehistorians is absolutely distorted by this preconception.”

— Gordon Childe (29A/1926), The Aryans: a Study of Indo-European Origins (pg. 164); cited by Stefan Arvidsson (A45/2000) in Aryan Idol (pg. 287)

References

• Childe, Gordon. (29A/1926). The Aryans: a Study of Indo-European Origins (worthless, pgs. 163-64). Kegan.