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Metaphors or Pentagrams 1

Joannes Richter

It is well known how languages gradually or even quickly deteriorate. The words are abbreviated and loose
their extensions. In the course of time even the sky-gods, their consorts and the royals are loosing their
trailers and initial letters or even the vowels in their sacred cores. Only the dead languages as Latin and the
cuneiform texts are stabilized in their baked form. This is what is documented in Guy Deutscher's book The
Unfolding of Language: an evolutionary tour of mankind's greatest invention.
New words for abstract topics arise as metaphors, which is illustrated as “rival” - from Latin rivalis "a rival"
originally, "of the same brook". The word “RIVAL”, which is a pentagram and a metaphor. Another sample
may be “mother”. A suitable etymology is found in mother | Etymology, origin and meaning of mother by
etymonline, which is based on baby-talk “ma”:
from PIE *mater- "mother" (source also of Latin māter, Old Irish mathir, Lithuanian motė,
Sanskrit matar-, Greek mētēr, Old Church Slavonic mati), "[b]ased ultimately on the baby-talk
form *mā- (2); with the kinship term suffix *-ter-" [Watkins].

Several alternatives are the pentagrams: Old Norse MÓÐIR, Old Irish MAThIR.
A similar etymology is found in father (n.), which is based on baby-talk “pa” :
from PIE *pəter- "father", presumably from baby-speak sound "pa." The ending formerly was
regarded as an agent-noun affix.

Several alternatives are the pentagrams: Old Norse Faðir, FAÐIR, (source also of Sanskrit PITAR, Old
Persian PITA, Old Irish (P)AThIR "father"), Latin (in Jupiter) PITER.
Do we accept “baby-talk” as the roots for such important words for our ancestors? A pentagram would be a
more professional approach!
Let me see what is the official etymology of the French word “Dieu” for “God”, which is found in
adieu (interj.): (from root *dyeu- "to shine"):
late 14c., adewe, from Old French a Dieu, a Deu, shortened from phrases such as a dieu (vous)
commant "I commend (you) to God," from a "to" (see ad-) + dieu "God," from Latin deum,
accusative of deus "god" (from PIE *deiwos "god" (from root *dyeu- "to shine").

The etymologists claim a root “to shine” for a Creator God, who existed before He created the world and had
to “create” the light in the Creation.
Again the alternatives are the pentagrams: DIAUS, DIEUS, DIOUS. These words are universal and do not
depend on the various roots for the hypothetical source “to shine”.
*dyeu- is the hypothetical source of/evidence for its existence is provided by: Sanskrit deva
"god" (literally "shining one"); diva "by day;" Avestan dava- "spirit, demon;" Greek delos
"clear;" Latin dies "day," deus "god;" Welsh DIW, Breton deiz "day;" Armenian TIW "day;"
Lithuanian dievas "god," diena "day;" Old Church Slavonic dini, Polish dzień, Russian den
"day;" Old Norse TIVAR "gods;" Old English Tig, genitive TIWES, name of a god2.

By the way: the words Welsh DIW "day;", Armenian TIW "day;" Old Norse TIVAR "gods;" and TIWES,
name of a god, may also correlate to or be derived from the word for the virtue ΘΈΜΙΣ (the Greek word for
Zeus' consort ThΈΜΙS “justice”).

1 A chapter in Once upon a Day the Word DINGIR (DIMER) Arose

2 Source: *dyeu-