You can't just make up etymology

If you knew the origins of most words, you'd be surprised :-) Try it in a foreign language and it gets weirder and funnier:-)

Google north eastern English or Scandanavian words :-) Hilarious :-) Blue tooth for example.

No? :-(

True.

However, uncovering such sound relationships is not hard-etymology.

Take the word "fruit" for example -- apples, oranges, etc.

In Hebrew, the word for fruit is also "fruit".

These two words sound the same, but what shows a clear etymological relationship is that not only do they sound the same, but that they mean the same thing.

In indo-oriented languages on the other hand, fruit is 'falah' or something nearly indistinguishable from "falah'.

It's easy if you know the timeliness of each variation and how the phonics in different languages created different interpretations. Historical data can be found locally and expanded on. I'm always searching for new online libraries but translation is not accurate enough to be definitive :-)

We need to share :-)

words are sigils in proper order - like a recipe sort of..

words ARE spells or influences (magic actually)

I could go on... but - agreed - the spell casters have a formula and it is named: etymology

THANK YOU!

So if I pull some text books from the attic, will it be too boring to cite from?

Go for it. Might be interesting.

I'll do it the weekend :-) Might be :-)

All of them are ras or raz backwards.

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Ras, an Ethiopian aristocratic and court title, as in Ras Tafari

It could even be, Ra's, as in Is Ra El.

I agree but would like to interject that in my experience online sources have a way of just dropping off and although I find very clear evidence including time/regional ... Synchronicities? I find no proper validation that I can quote. In cases like these, if I had the time or accessibility to sites like jstor and other archives, I strongly believe that the true etymology of a word could be arguably proven, peer reviewed 'n all, and thus 'extended' beyond the accepted status qou.

I've only come across words like those a handful of times and I certainly get what you are saying, though. If you're going to say it make sure it's at least grounded in reality...

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So, let's share.

Bring down your attic books.

I thought this post was going to be about bugs

exactly.

The support for the relationships needn't be peer-reviewed, but it needs to be rooted in some tangible, actual substance -- not just "well if you look at it this way, possibly, maybe, it could be, etc."

Wow, this got really trippy about half-way through.

It reminded me of this one time, I watched this historic film about a renowned figure immigrating to America, and he made a speech when he arrived.

I watched the entire speech and understood every word he said -- I was surprised at how perfect his English was.

Years later I was recounting the experience to someone, and they said that the speech-giver never spoke a word of English in his life. Finally, we tracked down the speech, and -- sure enough -- it was not in English... none of it.

But I heard English, even though that wasn't what was being said.

Yup...the spells embedded in our language get more and more boggling the deeper you look.

My daughter is a spelling bee champ and we did a lot of our study on word origins :) It's made both of our lives a lot easier...

Hey, words cast spells, that why it's called SPELL-ing!

Tzar is German as well as Kaiser.

The word Czar, which English speakers use to refer to the Russian emperors, entered the Russian language as Tsar, the Old Slavic version of Caesar: tsesari. The spelling Czar is a respelling of the Russian word with the letters of the Latin alphabet.

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Exactly. It "entered" the language.

"Kaiser" is (or at least appears to be) Germanic.

"Tzar" and all of its derivatives "entered" Germanic language (i.e. Indo-European influence) and are not/is not native to the language.