Ancient Greek, ὄνος (ónos) = ass, donkey...
According to Wiktionary, etymology = uncertain. Perhaps from Pre-Greek...
Hmmmmm...I wonder what Pre-Greek language could it be?
Slavic
"o" = on, on top
"nos" = carry
onos = o + nos = on + carry...
What are donkeys used mostly for???
Mysterious coincidence...
Today I came across this paper: "Kissik, Düru and Udannu" and in it, I read this: "deities worshipped in the city Udannu: the god Nergal (always written in the form diGi.DU, which also suggests an alternative reading Palil)..."
This is very interesting... Nergal, the deified destructive "burning" sun, was depicted as a lion man, because Jul/Aug, Leo, is the hottest and driest part of the year in Mesopotamia...Talked abut him in my post "Winged superhuman hero"...
Btw, Leo marks Jul/Aug, cause this is when Eurasian lions main mating season starts...
In Slavic folklore (remnants of old mythologies), middle of Leo, a week at the end of Jul, beginning of Aug, the hottest part of the hottest part of the year is called "kresovi' (fires)...This is because the sun during this period is so hot, that it burns the the land...
Now here is the interesting bit: in Slavic languages the word "pali" means "burns"...
So Palil, the alternative name for Nergal, the destructive, burning sun in Leo, in Slavic languages means "The one that burns", "The burning one (sun)"...
Weird, right? Also, did you know that Aplu was the Late Bronze Age Hittite and Hurrian god of plague, just like Nergal...And that Aplu was also a title given to the god Nergal, the destructive, burning sun, himself...
And even though we can read that Aplu means "the son of" (whom???), I think that much better meaning of this name is "The one that ignites, burns"...Found in Slavic languages, where "upali" means "ignites"...
And did you know that this Aplu was proposed to be one of the possible roots of the Greek Apollo, The "Terrible", "Feared" Sun god...Whose name in Slavic languages would mean "The one that burns"...Just like Nergal/Palil...
But this is surely a complete coincidence, right? Hmmm...It should be. But...Did you know that "there was an Akkadian god Erra who was syncretised with Nergal at an early date, and, especially in literary texts, they functioned as synonyms of each other"?
Also did you know that Erra is derived from the Semitic root HRR, and was etymologically related to the Akkadian verb ereru, "to scorch"? And that this means that Erra meant "The Scorching one"...
Where are you going with this, I can hear you ask...Here: did you know that Slavic word Jara (pronounced Yahrah) means "scorching heat"?
And that this word is the root of the Slavic Sun god Jarilo, The Scorching one...The Dragon...The Feared one...
Sooo...Not sure what to think of this...Amazing "coincidence"...If it was the only one...
Sumerian is a language isolate, without any known descendants or related languages...but...Interestingly, in it we find some very important words which (look like they) are direct cognates with Words from Balto-Slavic branch of IE languages...
Like words for:
King, Scribe and Tablet, Mind, Breath, Life, Grain, Weevil (Grain eating insect), Teeth, Sickle, Fly
BTW, Akkadian, a Semitic language, also has some very interesting words with (what look like direct) cognates in Balto-Slavic languages...
Like words for:
Axe, Balance (This could actually be a Sumerian word, we don't know), Gown, Acorn and Oak, Blood and Sacrifice
There is no explanation for how these words can be found in Sumerian and Akkadian, some of the oldest known Non IE languages, and in Balto-Slavic languages, allegedly "the youngest branch of IE languages"...
So what happened here? Is this just a giant pile of coincidences? I mean it must be, right?
Or maybe we should look at Hurrians of the Mitanni and their Indo-Iranian elite as a possible link here???
As I said, I don't know...I am just documenting all this here...
To read more about ancient animal and plant calendar markers, start here…then check the rest of the blog posts related to animal calendar markers I still didn't add to this page, and finally check my twitter threads I still didn't convert to blog post...I am 9 months behind now...
(In Mesopotamia) "There are flies that bite like bulldogs everywhere. . . The flies are awful; one black web of them this morning; in one's hair and eyes and mouth, in one's bath and shaving-water, in one's tea and in one's towel..." From: "Mons, Anzac & Kut" by Aubrey Herbert
Why am I talking about biting flies of Mesopotamia?
Cause in the Sumerian lexicon we can find this entry:
"muš4: a biting insect"
Which is very interesting...
Cause of this:
Serbo-Croatian: mušica = fly, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *máušāˀ, from Proto-Indo-European *mus-
Cognate with Lithuanian mùsė, dialectal musià, Latvian muša, Latin musca...
Sumerian is a language isolate, without any known descendants or related languages...but...Interestingly, in it we find some very important words which (look like they) are direct cognates with Words from Balto-Slavic branch of IE languages...
Like words for:
King, Scribe and Tablet, Mind, Breath, Life, Grain, Weevil (Grain eating insect), Teeth, Sickle
And now fly???
BTW, Akkadian, a Semitic language, also has some very interesting words with (what look like direct) cognates in Balto-Slavic languages...
Like words for:
Axe, Balance (This could actually be a Sumerian word, we don't know), Gown, Acorn and Oak, Blood and Sacrifice
There is no explanation for how these words can be found in Sumerian and Akkadian, some of the oldest known Non IE languages, and in Balto-Slavic languages, allegedly "the youngest branch of IE languages"...
So what happened here? Is this just a giant pile of coincidences? I mean it must be, right?
Or maybe we should look at Hurrians of the Mitanni and their Indo-Iranian elite as a possible link here???
As I said, I don't know...I am just documenting all this here...
BTW, there are more interesting words to be added to this list...Soon...
