How Strong are our Words' #Foundations? As Strong as Well-#Founded as the #Bedrock Base beneath them!
Part of 'the generation in which The Internet became an international experience,' I was of-course drawn to "etymology-publication" by the brilliant Marina "HotForWords" Orlova (I don't know if she's "done any words" lately, but maybe you can find some of her old videos either on YouTube itself (where she "premiered") or -elsewhere on The Internet).
But I think my fascination with 'how all the words are related through their ancestries (leading back to the Speaker/Writer who originally named them)' started when I first noticed the 'roots' beneath some words' definitions in the dictionary—I'd see that 'this word' is rooted in 'that word,' look-up 'that word' and see that it was rooted in 'the other word,' and thus I could see how the first word was rooted in the last word.
So when I started writing online, I thought 'Maybe it would be good to show people how ALL their words are connected to a-very-few words (or maybe Just One Word or -One Name).' And thinking that, I bet you know which One Name came to mind!
But life is far too complex to simplify like that! Oh, maybe it becomes simple (when all you've got to do is let your body's ashes dissipate & rot); but while you're busy living, life is much too 'free-flowing changing on the surface' to spend much time worrying about the 'never-changing depths!'
But–trying anyway–it didn't take long to figure out that most of those 'original meanings' were tied to either baby-talk or 'phonemes' (the sound a thing makes you feel like naming it, or the sound the named-thing makes) or (and I think this is what most words are) a "creole"—which I've heard linguistics-lecturers refer-to as 'language that "slaves"-pick up from "their master'" language & -add to their own language' (the way most of us pick up our words from 'our parents' language.')
Right now it seems like a good idea to list some of the Foundation-words' & Bedrock-sounds' languages ... under my 'doing those words' (where they're hyperlinked to 'the text that inspires me to make sure their foundations are firm).
But I think my fascination with 'how all the words are related through their ancestries (leading back to the Speaker/Writer who originally named them)' started when I first noticed the 'roots' beneath some words' definitions in the dictionary—I'd see that 'this word' is rooted in 'that word,' look-up 'that word' and see that it was rooted in 'the other word,' and thus I could see how the first word was rooted in the last word.
So when I started writing online, I thought 'Maybe it would be good to show people how ALL their words are connected to a-very-few words (or maybe Just One Word or -One Name).' And thinking that, I bet you know which One Name came to mind!
But life is far too complex to simplify like that! Oh, maybe it becomes simple (when all you've got to do is let your body's ashes dissipate & rot); but while you're busy living, life is much too 'free-flowing changing on the surface' to spend much time worrying about the 'never-changing depths!'
But–trying anyway–it didn't take long to figure out that most of those 'original meanings' were tied to either baby-talk or 'phonemes' (the sound a thing makes you feel like naming it, or the sound the named-thing makes) or (and I think this is what most words are) a "creole"—which I've heard linguistics-lecturers refer-to as 'language that "slaves"-pick up from "their master'" language & -add to their own language' (the way most of us pick up our words from 'our parents' language.')
Right now it seems like a good idea to list some of the Foundation-words' & Bedrock-sounds' languages ... under my 'doing those words' (where they're hyperlinked to 'the text that inspires me to make sure their foundations are firm).
The word "Foundations" (#Foundation #Founding #Founded #Founds #Found #Unfounded #FoundingFathers) is built on words that mean "|Bottom, |Base" (Fund, to Pour).
The word "Bedrock" is built on words that mean "#Bed (Sleeping-Place Dug in the Ground, ... Pierce, Prick, Pit, Ditch, Grave, |Bottom of a |Lake, -Sea or -Watercourse, |Geological 'Thick Layer or -|Stratum' #Embed #Embedded #Bedding #Beds)" + "Rock"—the compoud-word then referring to "Solid Rock lying |Under |Soil or -Gravel."
Those 'words & sounds' are commonly regarded as 'words of Proto-languages'—mostly Proto-IndoEuropean (PIE
... Proto-Anatolian, -Illryan, -Albanian, -Greek, -Thracian, -Armenian, -Indo-Iranian (-Indo-Aryan), -Balto-Slavic (-Baltic, -Slavic), -Celtic, -Germanic (-Norse), -Italic (Classical Latin (Vulgar Latin (Proto-Italo-Western Romance Language))), Proto-Tocharian)
... there's Africa's Proto-Afroasiatic (-Semitic & -Berber) & -Bantu, the Near East's Proto-Anatolian, -Northwest Caucasian (-Abazgi & -Circassian) & -Kartvelian (-Georgian-Zan), Europe's Proto-Basque, North Asia's Proto-Turkic, -Mongolic, -Korean, -Japonic, -Uralic (-Finno-Ugric, -Finnic (-Balto-Finnic), -Mordvinic, -Permic, -Samic, -Mansi, -Khanty, -Samoyed) & -Chukotko-Kamchatkan,
South Asia's Proto-Dravidian & additional PIE (Proto-Indo-Aryan & Proto-Iranian), the Pacific Rim's Prot-Pama-Nyungan, -Austronesian (-Malayo Polynesian (-Philippine & -Oceanic (-Polynesian))), -Kra-Dai (-Kra, -Kam-Sui, -Tai, -Hlai), -Sino-Tibetan (-Tibeto-Burman (-Loloish)), -Hmong-Mien & -Austroasiatic (-Aslian, -Khmeric),
the Americas' Proto-Eskimo (-Eskimo-Aleut), -Algic (-Algonquian), -Iroquoian, -Uto-Aztecan (-Nahuan), -Mayan, -Oto-Manguean & -Tupian, and (what linguists call) "Macrofamily Reconstructions": Boreal, Borean, Eurasiatic, Indo-Uralic, Nostratic, Proto-Denè-Caucasian, Proto-Human & 'Turit' (The Tower of Babel language).
I got 'that list' from Wikipedia, but I only listed all the languages so you know that there's a lot more to study (like a lot of Daniel's commentary on languages he deciphers to discover more with STARGATE SG-1)—probably more than any of us will ever have the time or the desire to get-to ... 'my main source' only talks about 'PIE' and a few of the other Proto-languages listed above.
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