The "obscure" Albanian word *dhe/earth.
*Dhe/earth, soil is a combination of organic matter, minerals, gases, liquids and organisms that together support plant life and soil organisms are the main providers of the essential life elements for the existence of animal and human life. Therefore, Demeter was the ancient proto-Albanian goddess of harvest and agriculture, whose main idea comes from the productive duality of the dhe/earth and *eme/mother from the Albanian word *dhe and *eme/mother from the the albanian word *ema.
The word has several forms, the main ones being Δημήτηρ (Dēmḗtēr). In Proto-Doric Albanian, the dialect of the Old Albanian language spoken in Sparta and the Peloponnese during the classical era, its name is Δαμάτηρ (Dāmā́tēr). In modern Greek it is phonetically bastardized as Dimitra.
Among classical scholars it is thought that the name Demeter probably derives from the obscure word δῆ (dê), hypothetically meaning "earth", and the well-attested word μήτηρ (mḗtēr), meaning "mother".
Therefore, the name means literally. "Mother Earth" according to this interpretation or "Dhe eme" in a version of the proto-albanian language.
This etymology is one of the rare correct etymologies in modern etymology.
However, not all scholars accept this etymology; John Chadwick, for example, mocks it in his book The Mycenaean World as a prime example of classicists making up non-existent words to justify false etymologies. The amateur John Chadwick is wrong because *δῆ (dê)/dhe is not a non-existent word. The classical scholars who assumed a word out of nowhere are not wrong at all, they are even much more talented as linguists than the amateur John Chadwick. The classical scholars assumed with their imagination the existence of a word that really exists as *dhe in the Albanian language and means exatly earth.
This is simply a proof of how low today's level of etymology is, how strong the exceptions of the Albanian language are, and how wrong is John Chadwick's translation of Linear B. The language written in those symbols is one of the scripts of the old Albanian language. You must know the Albanian language syllables and Vinka symbols well to correctly imagine and find out the meaning of written symbols of the Linear B language. The translation of Linear B is very wrong.
How could be John Chadwick's imagination correct when he cannot understand the connection between the word *δῆ (dê)/dhe with the form and dhe meaning of the word Δημήτηρ (Demeter). He died in November 1998, 2 months after the creation of Google by Larry Page and Sergey Brin. If he lived longer, maybe he would change his mind.
Since the word "dhe" is not an imaginary word, it exists only in Albanian language and it has only a minimal phonetic difference with "Demeter", this makes the word "dhe" in the composition of the word "Dhemeter" with full rights as the mother word of the word Demeter
I think there are two basic words from which Demeter was formed.
They are "dhe+eme+ter" which means "dhe eme" /mother earth and *ter is just an ending. (Meter is another misconception of the word mother for the Indo-Europoan languages).
It is obvious that today's Albanian language does not differ much from the Albanian of that time, where it is also clear that only the order of words has changed in that word formation.
*Dhe/earth, soil is a combination of organic matter, minerals, gases, liquids and organisms that together support plant life and soil organisms are the main providers of the essential life elements for the existence of animal and human life. Therefore, Demeter was the ancient proto-Albanian goddess of harvest and agriculture, whose main idea comes from the productive duality of the dhe/earth and *eme/mother from the Albanian word *dhe and *eme/mother from the the albanian word *ema.
The word has several forms, the main ones being Δημήτηρ (Dēmḗtēr). In Proto-Doric Albanian, the dialect of the Old Albanian language spoken in Sparta and the Peloponnese during the classical era, its name is Δαμάτηρ (Dāmā́tēr). In modern Greek it is phonetically bastardized as Dimitra.
Among classical scholars it is thought that the name Demeter probably derives from the obscure word δῆ (dê), hypothetically meaning "earth", and the well-attested word μήτηρ (mḗtēr), meaning "mother".
Therefore, the name means literally. "Mother Earth" according to this interpretation or "Dhe eme" in a version of the proto-albanian language.
This etymology is one of the rare correct etymologies in modern etymology.
However, not all scholars accept this etymology; John Chadwick, for example, mocks it in his book The Mycenaean World as a prime example of classicists making up non-existent words to justify false etymologies. The amateur John Chadwick is wrong because *δῆ (dê)/dhe is not a non-existent word. The classical scholars who assumed a word out of nowhere are not wrong at all, they are even much more talented as linguists than the amateur John Chadwick. The classical scholars assumed with their imagination the existence of a word that really exists as *dhe in the Albanian language and means exatly earth.
This is simply a proof of how low today's level of etymology is, how strong the exceptions of the Albanian language are, and how wrong is John Chadwick's translation of Linear B. The language written in those symbols is one of the scripts of the old Albanian language. You must know the Albanian language syllables and Vinka symbols well to correctly imagine and find out the meaning of written symbols of the Linear B language. The translation of Linear B is very wrong.
How could be John Chadwick's imagination correct when he cannot understand the connection between the word *δῆ (dê)/dhe with the form and dhe meaning of the word Δημήτηρ (Demeter). He died in November 1998, 2 months after the creation of Google by Larry Page and Sergey Brin. If he lived longer, maybe he would change his mind.
Since the word "dhe" is not an imaginary word, it exists only in Albanian language and it has only a minimal phonetic difference with "Demeter", this makes the word "dhe" in the composition of the word "Dhemeter" with full rights as the mother word of the word Demeter
I think there are two basic words from which Demeter was formed.
They are "dhe+eme+ter" which means "dhe eme" /mother earth and *ter is just an ending. (Meter is another misconception of the word mother for the Indo-Europoan languages).
It is obvious that today's Albanian language does not differ much from the Albanian of that time, where it is also clear that only the order of words has changed in that word formation.
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