Linguistic glob

The Chinese character "双" (shuāng), meaning "double" or "pair," is the simplified form of the traditional character "雙" (shuāng), which depicts a pair of hands, a common early Chinese representation for duality or paired objects. Its exact historical etymology beyond this visual representation is uncertain. The Etymology is not a precise science. The origin of a word can be much more complicated than it appears. Let's start with the human body, one of the earliest and most accessible observations for humans. We have several pairs in our body: 1. Ears 2. Eyes, eyebros, eyelashes. 4. Two sides of the nose 3. Arms and hands, with each element of their anatomy 4. Legs 5. Breasts 6. Shoulders What are the meanings of their characteristics that humans symbolized and mirrored into language? Some possible interpretations include: - Similarity: identical as separate elements - Quantity: as two of identical ones, - Usage: a set of two things used tog...

Since I began analyzing the symbolism of very old and important words in every language about 30 years ago, I'd like to summarize one example.  The Latin word * phallus refers to a symbolic image or likeness of the male sexual organ, representing themes of fertility and creation. Although it's sometimes used to denote the male sexual organ itself, its primary significance lies in its symbolic function rather than its anatomical reality. However, the origin of this symbolic concept remains unclear. From which primordial language does it stem? What common symbolism exists between "baba" (father), creator, phallus, filius , seed, and God across Proto-Indo-European (PIE) languages ? Despite their differing forms and phonetic representations, these words share a semantic meaning related to creation and generation with an primordial root such as "bha" or "bhi". Their forms and phonetic representations are quite different from one another as words, whic...