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from whence poly = selling? I thought poly was "many"?
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from whence poly = selling? I thought poly was "many"?Greek distinguishes between long and short vowels. Greek πωλη ( pōlē) 'sale', πωλέω ( pōleō) 'to exchange, sell' ( link) and πολύς ( polus) 'many' ( link). The - y in the English words comes from the Greek -ια (- ia).
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Taking a que from a Boy Scout Merit Bagde, how about... THEOORIENTEERING... for finding or discovering the pathway to God? The compass being scripture.
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Meanwhile I came up with theodactyl to describe the focal point of Michelangelo's Creation fo Adam.
Love this.
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I was curious about what cognates for the Greek πωλη (pōlē) 'sale' existed in other Indo-European languages. Ther are a few: an older German word, feil, Old Norse falr 'venal, for sale', Russian полон (polon) 'captivity; booty', Lithuanian pelnas 'earnings', from PIE *pel- 'to sell; to earn'.
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Wonderful topic! Here's something I've wondered about for years, help me out. A "lego" word for the process whereby reality/god/the cosmos/ whatever it is appears to answer questions in the exact vernacular in which they were posed. Kepler mentions this in his writings, but doesn't coin a word for it. He calls it something like "God speaks to us in the language we can understand."
Examples are why/how so many diverse "religions" (or inquiries) seem to "work" : voodoo, Shakerism, Shamanism,the I Ching, reading cowrie shells, Platonism, reading bird's entrails, etc., etc. Why/how so many cosmologies seem to be the only reasonable answer. And so on.
Can anyone come up with a word for what "God/Nature/Guidance/Whatever" is doing?
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Hagiography or hagiographics : the holy writings of nature / life.
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How about theolatrigony? the origin of God worship?
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from whence poly = selling? I thought poly was "many"?Greek distinguishes between long and short vowels. Greek πωλη ( pōlē) 'sale', πωλέω ( pōleō) 'to exchange, sell' ( link) and πολύς ( polus) 'many' ( link). The - y in the English words comes from the Greek -ια (- ia). okey doke. thanks. so, thee ah puh lee and thee ah poh lee?
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