Concepts to Compose Languages
Concepts to Compose Languages
Joannes Richter
Language theonym 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Egyptian ḎḪWTY(DjeḪUTY) Ḏ Ḫ W T Y
Linear B DieḪUTY → /DIWOS/ D I W O (s)
Greek (Δ)ΖΕΎΣ-PATĒR Δ Z E Y S P A T E R
Luvian TIWAZ-TATIS T I W A Z T A T I Z
Sanskrit DYAUS-PITAR D Y A U S P I T A R
Latin DIOUS-PITER D I O U S P I T E R
Germanic VIÞAR-FIÞAR V I Þ Ą R F I Þ Ą R
Abstract
Most modern Indo-European alphabets seemed to be derived from the 24-letter Egyptian alphabet,
which is based on the classical 5 Places of articulation. The Egyptian alphabet, which in Greco-
Latin is named the Thot or Theuth (Egyptian: DjeḪUTY, spelled: ḎḤWTY).
The Egyptian script “DieḪUTY” restricts the spelling to the consonants: ḎḤWTY. The Greek
scripts already had the syllabic script “di-wo1” for the sky-god “Diwos”, which may have
interpreted as a best-fit translation of the DjeḪUTY. The Greek linguists may have translated the
Egyptian word “DieḪUTY” to “Diwo(s)”, which resulted in a word “Zeus”: (Δ)ΖΕΎΣ.2
The supreme words are composed as 5-letters-words, which represent 5 categories (lingual, labial,
palatal, dental and guttural). The supreme deities are composed as couples of 5-letter words, eg.
DYAUS-PITAR: the sky-god (DYAUS) and a parent (PITAR).
Most words for the supreme gods “Dyaus”, “Thor” and the virtue “*Tiwaz” for “Justice” (ΘEMIS)
start with an lingual “D”, “Θ“, “L” or “T”. The words for the parents (“Father” & “Mother”) and
the virtue “Wisdom” (METIS) start with a labial “F”, “M”, “V”, “W”, etc.
The Snake, Knotted cord, Chick, Semicircle, Parallele represent dental, guttural, labial, lingual, palatal.
The Flag signals the determination for the names of gods.
In Latin the Egyptian word is interpreted as ḎḤWTY. In Ugaritic the interpretation of the word is
ṢḪUTY.
Zeus
The Greek sky-god DI-WO had been interpreted as DIWOS, but would be spelled Zeus as an
synchronized spelling (ḏ)ZḤWT of “Theut”. The “Z” is a strange initial letter for the sky-god,
which would be expected spelled as “D” for the standard sky-god “Dieus”.
3 Discovering Egyptian Hieroglyphs – A practical Guide; Karl-Theodor Zauzich, translated by Ann Macy Roth (1992)
4 Zeus swallows his consort Metis, who was pregnant with Athena; in this version, Athena is first born within Zeus
and then escapes from his body through his forehead.
In Greek mythology, Athena was believed to have been born from the forehead of her father Zeus.
The 2nd consort was ΘEMIS (Themis) lit. 'justice, law, custom')[2] is the goddess and
personification of justice, divine order, law, and custom. 5
METIS and ΘEMIS represent two antipodal cores: MET ↔ ΘEM, which may also identified in the
Germanic pantheon: WIT (Wisdom) ↔ TIW (justice).
Themis (ΘEMIS) means "divine law" rather than human ordinance, literally "that which is put in
place", from the Greek verb títhēmi (τίθημι), meaning "to put."[3]
5 Themis
The 2-dimensional pattern of the Younger ϝYÞAR-signary
The Younger ϝYÞAR(k) signary is an abbreviated version of the elder Futhark. In contrast to the
standard Futhark signaries the Younger ϝYÞAR(k) display the theonym (ϝYÞAR) at the first row of the
2-dimensional table. This feature allows the alphabetical designers to modify the signary from the
6th character. From the 6th letter all letters may be removed or replaced at lib. We may compare the
following 4 runic signaries:
1. Elder Futhark (24 Runes, 2e century AD)
2. Younger Futhark (16 Runes, 7e century AD)
3. Staveless Runes or Hälsinger Runes (15 Runes, 7e – 9e century AD)6
4. the dotted symbols in the nordic Runes.
5. The Anglo-Saxon runes (34 Runes, 5th through 11th centuries AD)
In the Staveless Runes (15 letters) we may identify the missing of the letter A, which disturbs the
theonym's pattern.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24
1 Symbol ᚠᚢ ᚦ ᚨ ᚱ ᚲ ᚷ ᚹ ᚺ ᚾ ᛁ ᛃ ᛈ ᛇ ᛉ ᛊ ᛏ ᛒ ᛖ ᛗ ᛚ ᛜ ᛞ ᛟ
2 Elder Futhark F U ÞARKGWH N I J P Ï Z S T B E M L Ŋ D O
3 Younger Futhark F U ÞARK H N I Æ S T B M L R
4 Staveless Runes F U Þ RK H N I A S T B M L R
5 Younger ϝYÞAR(k) F Y ÞARK H N I Æ S T B M L R
Table 5 The Futhark Signaries
The abbreviation of the Elder (24 symbols) to the Younger ϝYÞAR(k) signary (16 symbols) does
not disturb the theonym ϝYÞAR. The distribution of the 16 symbols over the categories is optimal
in the Younger ϝYÞAR(k) signary. Four of the 5 categories are equipped with 3 symbols. Only the
principal lingual category is filled with 4 symbols. The tongue is the most important Place of
articulation.
In the Younger ϝYÞAR(k) signary the last symbol ᛦ {R} is the terminal Yr-rune (Algiz).7
6 The Staveless runes were the climax of the simplification process in the evolution of runic alphabets that had started
when the Elder Futhark was superseded by the Younger Futhark.[1] (bron (Wikipedia): Hälsinge runes)
7 The Yr rune ᛦ is a rune of the Younger Futhark. Its common transliteration is a small capital ʀ. The shape of the Yr
rune in the Younger Futhark is the inverted shape of the Elder Futhark rune (ᛉ). Its name yr ("yew") is taken from
the name of the Elder Futhark Eihwaz rune.
The integrated words for Father & Mother
In a reordered Younger ϝYÞAR(k) signary we may display two words for ϝAÞYR (“Father”) and
MÆTIR (“Mother”).
• The first row displays ϝAÞYR, which may represent the Old-Irish “ϝAÞIR” or old-Nordic
FAÐIR (Father)8.
• The third row displays MÆTIR, which may represent the Old-Irish “MAÞIR” or old-Nordic
MOÐIR (Mother)9.
The symmetry for “father” & “mother” is a impressive. Both ϝAÞYR (“Father”) and MÆTIR
(“Mother”) seem to be integrated in the 2-dimensional table of the Younger Futhark
signary/alphabet!
8 https://www.etymonline.com/de/word/father
9 https://www.etymonline.com/de/word/mother
The gender “male” & “female” for horses
Humans began domesticating horses around 4000 BCE, and their domestication is believed to have
been widespread by 3000 BCE. Horses in the subspecies caballus are domesticated, although some
domesticated populations live in the wild as feral horses. These feral populations are not true wild
horses, which are horses that never have been domesticated.
The Dutch and German word for horse is PhERIT 10, whereas the mare is MERRIE, resp. MÄHRE,
which in Manchu language may be derived from MORIN. In Manchu the horse is named MORIN.
In Germanic languages the words for the male & female couple may have interpreted as antipodal
compositions of the words: in Faroese FAÐIR (father) ↔ MÓÐIR (mother) and for the horses
PhERIT (horse) ↔ MORIN (mare):
gender
classes Couple male female
Horses Stallion - Mare pherit - PhERIT morin - MORIN
Humans Father - Mother Faðir - FAÐIR móðir - MÓÐIR
Table 9 Balanced compositions for the Stallions and Mares (PERID & MORIN)
Several peoples are still proud and based on their animals such as Manchu (Mongolian12).
Monogolian words such as морин (MORIN) or ᠮᠣᡵᡳᠨ (MORIN) are still found in languages of peoples, in
which horses played or still are playing still a principal role. 13
10 Pferd n. Der Name des Reit- und Zugtiers ahd. parafred, pherfrit u. a. (9. Jh.), PhERIT (Hs. 13. Jh.), mhd. phert,
asächs. -pereth, mnd. pert, mnl. pe(e)rt, pa(e)rt, nl. paard ist (wohl im nördlichen Gallien) entlehnt aus spätlat.
paraverēdus ‘Postpferd für besondere Fälle, Extrapostpferd’, eigentlich ‘Nebenpferd’, einer Bildung zu gall.-lat.
verēdus ‘Post-, Kurier-, Jagdpferd’. › (source: Pferd‹ in: Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Deutschen | DWDS)
11 Source: A Confirmation of The Rivers of Paradise | PDF
12 the Manchu language also had a large number of loanwords from other languages such as Mongolian, for example
the words morin (horse) and temen (camel).
13 Proto-Tungusic *murin.
The legendary name-giving of the animals by Adam
So God creates all the animals and the birds and brings them to Adam to see what he
will call them and “whatever the man called every living creature, that was its name”
(Gen. 2.19). Adam named all the birds and beasts, but no partner was found for him. 14
The legendary description of the name-giving of all animals by one person, Adam, who composed a
name for each animal. One of the locations, where all animals were available to be shown, could be
the archaeological place of the discovery of the Beasts of Göbekli Tepe. Also the list of Adam's
legendary name-giving15 may be synchronized with the animals in Göbekli Tepe16.
Of course Adam could not choose a metaphor to express the animal's attributes in their names.
Adam may have composed the animals' names as pentagrams which represented the 5 letter
categories: lingual, labial, palatal, dental and guttural. First of all I identified a few easy 5-letter
names for the created animals, which could be identified in a dictionary as Adam's words for the
large, wild wisent, bison, elk and wolf : WISENT, ZIBOR, BISON, LAVIS, MINOS, ELGUR,
LÚKOS.
One of the best-fit names (instead of KARUN) would be PASIN as an mutation PASIN-TIGRIS of
the name Pasitigris (or PASIN-Tigris), which would result in a name-giving as follows:
Location River Pentagram 1 2 3 4 5 river Location
northwest Euphrates FIRAT F I R A T slow long Desert
southwest Pis(h)on PISON P I S O N short -side
17 The Jewish–Roman historian Flavius Josephus, in the beginning of his Antiquities of the Jews (1st century AD)
identified the Pishon with the Ganges.[3] The medieval French rabbi Rashi identified it with the Nile.[4]
The Ogham alphabet
The Ogham alphabet displays the name of the sky-god TIΕU at the forth row of the 2-dimensional
table of the alphabet18.
The incomplete pentagram “TIEU” of the Gaulish language may have been imported as the sky-god
“DII ĒU” to the French language. Therefore the name “TIEU” and the Gaulish alphabet may be
inherited from the Gaulish territory.
Geoffroy Tory (1480-1533) describes the inventor of the Ogham alphabet as a Gaulish Hercules19.
In this case the Ogham alphabet might be dated around the year 51 B.C.
Another importer may be the bishop Palladius, the first bishop of the Christians in Ireland,
preceding Saint Patrick. Palladius was a deacon and member of one of the prominent families in
Gaul. Pope Celestine I consecrated him a bishop and sent him in AD 431 to Ireland "to the Scotti
believing in Christ"20. The second origin of the Ogham may be dated around AD 431.
The motivation of the druids may be identified in their own god (“TIEU” ?).
Also the Gauls knew the Roman sky-god Jupiter, which had been derived from the original “father”
god (DJOUS PITER), which matches “DII ĒU”, but had been deteriorated to “II U”.
The druid, who personified the Gaulish Hercules, guessed the name “II U” would not be accepted as
a sky-god. Probably the Ogham alphabet had to display the French “TIEU” in their new alphabet,
which had to be interpreted as a “bundle of furrows”:
18 The Arrays (and the Presumed Theonym TIEU) of the Ogham Signary
19 Champfleury (1529), Geoffroy Tory.
20 Palladius
The symbols of the Ogham-alphabet
The Ogham alphabet is a lined scripture which originally had been composed as follows:
B,L,F,S,N – H,D,T,C,Q – M,G,Ng,Z,R – A,O,U,E,I
The row is composed as four lines, each of which contains five letters. Later a fifth trailer line with
5 letters was to be added to the end of the alphabet.
The following straight line orders the 20 (respectively 25) letters of the Ogham alphabet in one line:
The following expression "beth luis nion", is the name of the Ogham alphabet. These 3 symbols
form the first letter (B), the second letter (L) and the fifth letter (N) in the Aicme Beithe (notice: the
letter-symbols have to be read "upside down")21.
Fig. 6 Beith – Luis – Nion (the “BLN”-name of the Ogham alphabet – source: Ogham-steen)
•
Ogham letters (Source: Wikipedia)
Aicme Beithe (5 letters) Aicme Muine /5 letters)
ᚁ [b] Beith ᚋ [m] Muin
ᚂ [l] Luis ᚌ [ɡ] Gort
ᚃ [w] Fearn ᚍ [ɡʷ] nGéadal
ᚄ [s] Sail ᚎ [st], [ts], [sw] Straif
ᚅ [n] Nion ᚏ [r] Ruis
Aicme hÚatha (5 letters) Aicme Ailme (5 letters)
ᚆ [j] Uath ᚐ [a] Ailm
ᚇ [d] Dair ᚑ [o] Onn
ᚈ [t] Tinne ᚒ [u] Úr
ᚉ [k] Coll ᚓ [e] Eadhadh
ᚊ [kʷ] Ceirt ᚔ [i] Iodhadh
Forfeda (special symbols)
ᚕ [k], [x], [eo] Éabhadh
ᚖ [oi] Ór
ᚗ [ui] Uilleann
ᚘ [p], [io] Ifín ᚚ [p] Peith
ᚙ [x], [ai] Eamhancholl vte
Table 13 Ogham letters (Source: Ogham)
21 Notice: "BETH" may also be spelled (possibly more correct): "BEITH." (source: Ogham-steen)
The Germanic, Roman & Greek Virtues in the Days of the Week22
Home's Iliad seems to be filled with 5-letter words, which are related to the cardinal virtues such as
“Μῆνις” (divine wrath, ΜΗΗΝΙΣ), the first consort “Metis” (wisdom, METIS) and the second
consort “Themis” (justice, ThEMIS [ΘEMIΣ]) of Zeus. The roots of the Greek deities are antipodes:
(MET ↔ ΘEM).
There are two words for wrath (MÊNIS en ThYMOS) in which Mynes is the divine wrath and
Thumos (θυμός) the common anger.
The Germanic words for wrath (*WRAITh- and *WREIT-) seem to be composed as pentagrams.
The wisdom is honored by Wednesday (as (W)ODIN's day). The justice is honored by Tuesday (as
Tiw's or TIVAS' day). These Germanic deities are antipodes (WIT ↔ TIW).
The divine wrath may be based on Mēnis (MENIS) → MINERVA → *WREIT (“wrath”).
The 4th and 5th virtues may be based on ΜΥΗΘ (religion) ↔ ΘYM (passion). The 6th virtue (to make
love or freedom: FRIJŌN - LIBER - VRIJEN) may be based on Freyja. 23
## Virtue Greek Roman Germanic
Defini- Penta- Root Penta- Defini- Penta- Root
tion gram gram tion gram
sky-god Thursday Z(i)EUS Z(i)EUS (i)EU IOU- *Teiws TEIWS I(c)
PITER
1 Wisdom Wednesday Metis METIS MET MINER- Wotan (W)ODIN WIT
VA
2 (divine) Wednesday Mēnis MENIS MEN MINER- Wut *WREIT WUT (?)
Wrath VA (wrath)
3 Justice Tuesday Themis ΘEMIS ΘEM IOU- Tiw TIVAS TIW
PITER
4 Prudence Wednesday seeing ahead ΜΥΗΘΟΣ ΜΥΗΘ Mythus myth MYÞE MYÞ
Transcendence mythos
Temperance
(spirituality)
5 Courage Tuesday tʰūmós ΘYMOS ΘYM Pathos ? Mut MOÞS MUTh
(passion) PAΘOS (moþs) (?)
26 Übersetzungsfehler der „Ilias“: Homers Göttin singt nicht – author: Raoul Schrott (dated 2015, in German)
27 Notities bij het eerste woord... in 'Μῆνιν Ἄειδε Θεὰ...
28 Achilles: Athena’s guidance is crucial in influencing Achilles’ decisions, particularly in moments of anger and pride.
By intervening, she helps to temper his wrath and focus his energy on strategic goals. (source: The Role of Athena in
the Iliad: Strategy and Warfare)
29 Why the Title of the First European Book may be 'Menis' ('Divine Wrath')
Summary
Most modern Indo-European alphabets seemed to be derived from the 24-letter Egyptian alphabet,
which is based on the classical 5 Places of articulation. The Egyptian alphabet, which in Greco-
Latin is named the Thot or Theuth (Egyptian: DjeḪUTY, spelled: ḎḤWTY).
The Egyptian script “DieḪUTY” restricts the spelling to the consonants: ḎḤWTY. The Greek
scripts already had the syllabic script “di-wo30” for the sky-god “Diwos”, which may have
interpreted as a best-fit translation of the DjeḪUTY. The Greek linguists may have translated the
Egyptian word “DieḪUTY” to “Diwo(s)”, which resulted in a word “Zeus”: (Δ)ΖΕΎΣ.31
The supreme words are composed as 5-letters-words, which represent 5 categories (lingual, labial,
palatal, dental and guttural). The supreme deities are composed as couples of 5-letter words, eg.
DYAUS-PITAR: the sky-god (DYAUS) and a parent (PITAR).
Most words for the supreme gods “Dyaus”, “Thor” and the virtue “*Tiwaz” for “Justice” (ΘEMIS)
start with an lingual “D”, “Θ“, “L” or “T”. The words for the parents (“Father” & “Mother”) and
the virtue “Wisdom” (METIS) start with a labial “F”, “M”, “V”, “W”, etc.
In Latin the Egyptian word is interpreted as ḎḤWTY. In Ugaritic the interpretation of the word is
ṢḪUTY.
The Greek sky-god DI-WO had been interpreted as DIWOS, but would be spelled Zeus as an
synchronized spelling (ḏ)ZḤWT of “Theut”. The “Z” is a strange initial letter for the sky-god,
which would be expected spelled as “D” for the standard sky-god “Dieus”.
METIS and ΘEMIS represent two antipodal cores: MET ↔ ΘEM, which may also identified in the
Germanic pantheon: WIT (Wisdom) ↔ TIW (justice).
Themis (ΘEMIS) means "divine law" rather than human ordinance, literally "that which is put in
place", from the Greek verb títhēmi (τίθημι), meaning "to put."[3]
The Germanic virtues WIT (wisdom) and TIW (justice) are antipodes, which correlate to the virtues
METIS ↔ ΘEMIS. The letter “M” in METIS ↔ ΘEMIS may have been caused by the missing of
the skipped letter Digamma (ϝ).
The complete triad of the pentagrams TÆIWS, WITÆS and TIWÆS displays the names of the sky
god and the virtues in the 3rd row of the Futhark 2-dimensional table (filled with 24 letters).
The symmetry for “father” & “mother” is a impressive. Both ϝAÞYR (“Father”) and MÆTIR
(“Mother”) seem to be integrated in the 2-dimensional table of the Younger Futhark
signary/alphabet!
The incomplete pentagram “TIEU” of the Gaulish language may have been imported as the sky-god
“DII ĒU” to the French language.
The word Mēnis (MENIS) describes the divine wrath and not the common human anger (θυμός,
ΘΥΜΌΣ)32.
The following overview describes the Derivatives from the Word “Djehuty”. Some languages
interpreted the genitive of the maternal theonym as a new theonym.
• For example: Iovis is genitive singular of Iuppiter. Iovis was also an (Late Latin, Medieval
Latin) Alternative form of Iuppiter, the god Jove, Jupiter.
• Dios is a genitive singular of Zeus. Dios is also Old Spanish Dios, or from Latin Deus, from
Old Latin deivos, from Proto-Italic *deiwos, from Proto-Indo-European *deywós, derivative
from *dyew- (“sky, heaven”).