Sunday, June 21, 2009
The Limits of Etymological Dictionaries
For those of you who do not find the subject absolutely fascinating (like I do), you can skip this post.
Can You Trust Your (Etymological) Dictionary?
The Oxford Etymologist
June 10, 2009
By Anatoly Liberman
Liberman discusses the difficulty often encountered in tracing origins of words, and explores two examples, the English words "boy" and "girl."
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...boy, buoy, b/poyoy(mayan)=skunk,
comes from the pie word, poyaua(N)=
to color up, to illuminate something(like a mother, or pregnant girl).
girl is from the pie word,
coloa(Nauatl), which is the word,
color(E)itself, from which the
english words, coil/curl(E)=
c/gurl(letra)=girl(E), cool.
the mongolian word for pawn=
hu(M)= h/ph/pu=po-(yaua/N), which
has the meaning, boy/puppy, and
here in, puppy, one sees the poo
(pun). by the way, jan, the
great khan genghis's flag has
the sun/noyon(M)=nouianyo(N)=
universal=sun=king(chess), and,
nohoi(M)=guard dog=nouian(N)=
everywhere=me(r)ze(M)=mastiff
(queen/chess)=meztli(N)=leg,limb,
moon.
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