On the Etymologies of Kypros, kyparissos, kypeiron, kapparis, salamandra, Salmoxis/Zalmoxis, Gebeleixis, Zibelthiurdos, Cybele et al.
Creators: name: Gheorghiu, Alexandru
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Ancient Greek, Pre-Greek, Dacian language, Thracian language, Anatolian, Hittite language, Akkadian language, Sumerian language , Proto-Indo-European linguistics, Indo-European, Sanskrit, Ancient Greece, Cyprus, Bronze Age, Copper, History of copper, History of metallurgy, Eastern Mediterranean, Pelasgian, Eteo-Cypriot, Aegean languages, linguistic anthropology, European history, Greek language, Latin language, Romanian language, German language, English language, Armenian language, Mesopotamia, Semitic languages, Proto-Slavic language, Proto-Balto-Slavic, Burushaski language, Hattic language, Sumer, Akkad, Near East, Kypros, cypress tree, cyperus longus, lawsonia inermis, cress, cardamom, history of spices
Salmoxis, Zalmoxis, Gebeleixis, Zebeleixis, Dacian religion, Thracian religion, Dacian mythology, Thracian mythology, Zibelthiurdos, Zbelsiurdos, Albanian mythology, Thunder god, Lightning god, Storm god, Weather god, Thor, Zeus, Jupiter, Teshub, Cybele, Kybele, Kybebe, Kubaba, Kugbau, Hurrian mythology, Hurrian religion, Sumerian mythology, Sumerian religion, Phrygian religion, Phrygian mythology, Phrygian language, Greco-Roman religion, Greco-Roman mythology, caballus, mountain goddess, gudgeon, history of equine terminology, Peri-Indo-European, Semi-Indo-European, Etymology, Palaeo-Balkan languages, sapphire, salamander, Salamis
Thunderstones, lapis lazuli, Apollo, Aphrodite, Venus, Getae, Getic, Getean, Perkwunos, Caperus spinosa, caper plant, myrrh, Bas,

description: On the etymologies of Kypros (Cyprus), kyparissos (=the cypress tree), kypeiron (=Cyperus longus), kapparis (the caper plant), kypros (=Lawsonia inermis), sappheiros (=lapis lazuli in Ancient Greek),, salamandra (=salamander). And many more new etymologies, such as new never-before revealed etymologies of Daco-Thracian Salmoxis/Zalmoxis, Gebeleixis/Gebeleizis, Zibelthiurdos/Zibelsiurdos, which are of extremely high certainty due to the odds of the way it matched up so exactly to something well-known in the mythology of storm gods in Europe. It’s extremely unlikely that these new etymologies of the Daco-Thracian Zeus are incorrect. This work definitely elucidates a number of ancient Eurasian and PIE roots and words and Semitic roots words. I have also found an Ancient Greek word previously unidentified: “aoia” meant “myrrh tree” on the island of Cyprus and in some other parts of the Ancient Greek world. This work can also be titled “Love and Thunder”, since I first discuss the etymology of Kypros, the island of Aphrodite the goddess of Love, then soon after that I discuss the etymologies of Zalmoxis, Gebeleixis, and Zibelthiurdos, three gods of Thunder. And I arranged it like this long before I knew that that would be the title of the new Thor movie from Marvel: they first made that title public in July 2019, but I did not know about that title in December 2020 when I published the first version with that arrangement.
description: Updated eleventh version. I've greatly brought up this work by removing the difficult and problematic etymology of sappheiros, which will require its own treatment (next year, unless I find that it does derive from sanipriya). The sappheiros etymology was the one that didn't fit well in this work and it runs into the problem that in India lapis lazuli was associated with Neptune and Saturn sometimes, as I knew since before I began the sappheiros alternative etymologies, but in Ancient Greece lapis lazuli was the sky-stone of Zeus and Apollo, so the debate will probably continue in a work in the future, since also there is no intermediary form establishing the derivation from sanipriya. This eleventh version has some new material, but not a lot; the new material is mostly in the Cybele section where I've improved the discussion of Kubileya/Kubeleya very much with many new insights, linguistic (debating whether Kubeliya/Kubeleya was originally an adjectival epithet or whether that adjectival epithet is a folk-etymology that reinterpreted Kug-ba-u). I've put the Caballus material into its own section (and added and improved some material in that section), still following the Gebeleixis and Zibelthiurdos material. Includes the important new material added to the 10th version, including a new etymology for Kug-ba-u that does not involve a "pomegrenate" meaning: this new etymology is very likely correct, and it explains more as well. Added to the "Cybele and Kug-ba-u" section is a lot of new material, where I have found that the root-meaning of Sumerian Mas was not "to turn, curve, twist, round", but instead something else which may provide the actual etymology of Phrygian Bas/Bat-s, though I do like the etymology that explains Bas/Bat-s as "the radiant one"; also in that section is my new explanation of Sumerian mus="snake" and musen="bird", an explanation that states that the root-meaning was "to rush; fast-moving; to fly". To the Kypros section I have added Ancient Greek Kuprinos="carp"; to the Salmoxis/Gebeleixis/Zibelthiurdos section I have added Romanian tsur="pointed" of unknown etymology, which could be cognate to Thiurdos/Siurdos/Surdos="oak tree" (because of the pointed acorns); and if you haven't yet seen/read my new perfecting of my etymology of Kypros, the name of the island: Kypros most likely does derive from "pointed", referring to the long, pointed peninsula jutting out from the eastern end of the island, as proven by Kerastia/Kerastis, ancient alternate names for the island, which derive from Keras="horn"---see, I was right! This is the work that brought the world not only the first correct etymology of Kypros, but also of Salmoxis/Zalmoxis, Gebeleixis/Zebeleixis, Zibelthiurdos/Svelsurdos, Kardamon, Kardzouliek, and probably of Salamandra as well, and now probably also of Kug-ba-u, as well as more correct new etymologies. And in the final Kwet section, I explain that the meaning "rock, stone" for *Kwetra="rock, stone" could have developed from "thunderstone", in turn from "lightning bolt" in turn from "pointed; sharp; bright": see Tocharian B "karwene" (="rock, stone") for a likely parallel example of a word for "rock, stone" likely deriving from "lightning bolt" because it was believed by many that many or all stones came down from the sky with lightning strikes. In the ninth and tenth versions I have removed the Kardamon/Kardzouliek work which will be given its own PDF soon; no change to those Kard- etymologies but I will add more to it. Till then that work can be seen in previous versions of this work (versions 8 through 1).