Comments on: Word Origins

By: Isaac Mozeson

Isaac Mozeson — Mon, 24 May 2010 18:23:33 +0000

My Bruthuh:
You should be working, ok playing, with our Edenics team. We only have one Hamitic guy, and he’slimited to Luia and Swahilli.
Don’t believe the hype. There was never a Proto Indo-Eurotrash people or language. That’s racist trash, or, at best PIE in the sky.
Where do you think they got the name Agni for their little idol? From ??? NoaGaH, bright, shine, splendor. N-G ignites deity words, NG words.

Of course the Misrim/Egyptians called themselves Kamites. They are Bnai K[H]aM (sons of “Ham,” son of Noah). K[H]OOM means brown. A warm color. K[H]aM means heat. Let me send you the huge “AMITY” entry or a 1000-pg CD dict. that shreds IE roots and published etymologies.

Did you know that Zulu (N)daba, council is a cognate of the viet (B-D reversed) in soVIET, which means a council. Cognate?! From what common source? From Edenic Vav-Ayin-Dalet, Va’[A]D, council. Whatyasay Cousin?

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Featured Post – Word Origins | tzaadi.com — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 08:58:48 +0000

[...] Somewhere along the way, I developed an interest in the origins of words, probably as a result of exposure to the classical, so called ‘dead’ languages, Latin and Sanskrit. This was never a serious pursuit but I found it quite entertaining to discover remnants of older cultures, especially non-European ones, emerging from my use of English. I suspect that any way for a Black boy to throw off the yoke of Euro-think, was a subconscious joy…a rather small, personal victory… Read More [...]

By: Tzaadi

Tzaadi — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 19:24:25 +0000

Thank you Tony. Your insightful comment makes me miss Ciardi even more.

By: Tony

Tony — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 11:06:40 +0000

I too was a fan of John Ciardi’s NPR commentaries. I remember some additional details about “copacetic”–details that have stuck with me for two decades though I haven’t been able to confirm them via an internet search. He called “copasetic” the only word that made it into English with non-biblical Hebrew origins. He also suggested that it entered black vernacular and the jazz music scene through people who were hired as Shabbat goyim by orthodox Jews to do things for them that they couldn’t do on Shabbat.

His etymology as I remember it was much more detailed than anything else I’ve ever read about the word, so in retrospect I think his commentary that day may have been more speculative than I remember it.