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Joannes Richter
Abstract
From a technical viewpoint languages may be considered as standard communication systems
between partners, which may be analyzed for their coding systems, symbols, efficiency and
standards such as alphabets and synchronization systems.
In PIE-languages the symbols may be categorized according to their linguistic categories Linguals,
Gutturals, Palatals, Labials, Dentals.
A few Languages may have conserved some of their original cores such as DYAUS, DIOVIS,
DIEVAS, DIEVS, DEIVUS, DEIWS, DEYWIS, DEIVAS, TI'WAR, TIWES, TUISCO, TUISTO.
These code-words contain the most important representatives of all linguistic categories.
In analogy to the noble gases with a "full" outer shell of valence electrons we may define the words
with a “full” quintet (5-set) of representative linguistic categories “noble phonetic quintet”. Most
languages however may have lost parts of their noble keywords by deterioration.
Although our knowledge of Etruscan language is rather scarce we may check the Tuscan dictionary
for equivalent cores, which may fit in the list of the PIE-keywords.
The List of Etruscan mythological figures contains a number of relevant names TIUR, TIVR, TIV,
TUSCA(N), which correlate to a neighboring language-family in the words TI'WAR, TIWES,
TUISCO and TUISTO.
In Old Persian cuneiform scripture the name “Mitra” is spelled as (Mi-Θ-Ra) and in Avestan,
Sanskrit (Hinduism) and in Latin as MIT(h)RA, which includes all 5 standard categories Dental,
Guttural, Lingual, Palatal, Labial in one word.
Some of the original keywords (such as VIDES [Latvians], JUTES [→ Jutland], GOThS [*GUT-
ÞIUDA "Gothic people" or *GUTANS (Goths)], etc.) also inspired the people to use the keyword to
compose a king's name, a people's name and/or their language, in which the 5 representative
symbols for the linguistic categories are specified.
Introduction
The Chief Etruscan god, the ruler of the skies, husband of Uni, and father of Hercle,
identified with the Greek Zeus and Roman Jupiter well within the Etruscan window of
ascendance, as the Etruscan kings built the first temple of Jupiter at Rome. Called apa,
"father" in inscriptions (parallel to the -piter in Ju-piter), he has most of the attributes of his
Indo-European counterpart, with whom some have postulated a more remote linguistic
Tinia,
connection.[36] The name means "day" in Etruscan. He is the god of boundaries and
Tina,
justice. He is depicted as a young, bearded male, seated or standing at the center of the
Tin
scene, grasping a stock of thunderbolts. According to Latin literature, the bolts are of three
types: for warning, good or bad interventions, and drastic catastrophes.[37] Unlike Zeus,
Tin needs the permission of the Dii Consentes (consultant gods) and Dii Involuti (hidden
gods) to wield the last two categories. A further epithet, Calusna (of Calu), hints at a
connection to wolves or dogs and the underworld.[37]
Tiur,
Tivr, Etruscan deity identified with Greek Selene and Roman Luna (goddess).[38]
Tiv
Table 1 Extract from The list of the Etruscan Deities
Tinia
Tinia (also Tin, Tinh, Tins or Tina) was the god of the sky and the highest god in
Etruscan mythology, equivalent to the Roman Jupiter and the Greek Zeus.[1] He was
the husband of Thalna or Uni and the father of Hercle.
The Etruscans believed in Nine Great Gods, who had the power of hurling thunderbolts;
they were called Novensiles by the Romans.[2] Of thunderbolts there were eleven sorts,
of which Tinia, as the supreme thunder-god, wielded three.[2] Tinia was also part of the
powerful "trinity" that included Menrva and Uni, and had temples in every city of
Etruria.[3] Tinia was sometimes represented as seated and with a beard or sometimes
standing and beardless.[3] In terms of symbolism, Tinia has the thunderbolt and the rod
of power, and is generally accompanied by the eagle and sometimes has a wreath of ivy
round his head, in addition to the other insignia of Jove. 1
This entry may refer to the archaic god who might still be respected in the background.
2 Etruscan Vocabulary
3 beginning in the "north" (the left side in the image shown above) and going clockwise, c.f. Nancy Thomson De
Grummond, Etruscan Myth, Sacred History and Legend (2006), p. 50.
Notes to the theonyms at the Liver of Piacenza
The outer rim of the Piacenza liver is divided into 16 sections; since according to the testimony of
Pliny and Cicero,[citation needed] the Etruscans divided the heavens into 16 astrological houses, it
has been suggested that the liver is supposed to represent a model of the cosmos,
Tin, the main god of lightning, had his dwelling due north. His principal position at the beginning of
the list at the circumference:[2] may suggest that Tin automatically is the most important sky-god.
The Etruscan word “Tinia” translates as "day", whereas ais > eis is “God”. The ego-pronoun (“I”)
is “mi”.4
The theonyms at the Liver of Piacenza are abbreviated and in many cases, the reading even of the
abbreviation is disputed. As a result, there is a consensus for the interpretation of individual names
only in a small number of cases. The reading given below is that of Morandi (1991) unless
otherwise indicated5:
The most important words may be found at the bottom of the artefact:
1 TIVS (or TIVR "Moon"? [1])
2 usils
Table 5 Divine names in the Liver of Piacenza (at the bottom of the artefact)
Therefore I decided to concentrate of the names TUSCA and TIVR as the Etruscan keywords.
tiur [PyrT 2.iv; TCort vi] (na.sg.) // tiiurś [TLE 749], tivrs [TLE 181] (gen.sg.) // tiuri-
m [LL 2.iii, 2.xv, 3.xxiii, 4.ii, 5.iv, 8.xxi, 8.xxxv, 9.iii, 9.xi] (loc.sg.)
(LL = Liber Linteus; PyrT = Pyrgi Tablets; TCort = Tabula Cortonensis; TLE =
Testimonia Linguae Etruscae)
According to the Etruscan Vocabulary the word “moon” and the word “month” is translated as
TIUR, which is related to the text at the bottom of the Liver of Piacenza.
TIUR [PyrT 2.iv; TCort vi] (na.sg.) // TIIURŚ [TLE 749], TIVRS [TLE 181]
(gen.sg.) // TIURI-M [LL 2.iii, 2.xv, 3.xxiii, 4.ii, 5.iv, 8.xxi, 8.xxxv, 9.iii, 9.xi] (loc.sg.)
(LL = Liber Linteus; PyrT = Pyrgi Tablets; TCort = Tabula Cortonensis; TLE =
Testimonia Linguae Etruscae).
4 Etruscan Vocabulary
5 beginning in the "north" (the left side in the image shown above) and going clockwise, c.f. Nancy Thomson De
Grummond, Etruscan Myth, Sacred History and Legend (2006), p. 50.
The 5-letter divine names
A number of divine names covers all 5 linguistic categories Linguals - Gutturals - Palatals - Labials
- Dentals. A set of names are 5-letter words, which may be identified as perfect structures, each of
which contains one letter for each linguistic category.
The keywords may be grouped in 4 structures:
1. The DI-family (Sanskrit, Latin, Lithuanian, Latvian): DYAUS, DIOVIS, DIEVAS, DIEVS.
2. The DE–family (Prussian, Sudovian): DEIVUS, DEIWS, DEYWIS, DEIVAS.
3. The TI–family (Norse, English, and Etruscan): TI'WAR, TIWES, TIUR, TIVR, TIV.
4. The TU–family (Germanic, Tuscan) TUSCA(N), TUISCO, TUISTO
This overview suggests the TUSCA(N) and TUISCO are correlating. The “Tuisco”-territory
(Switzerland, Benelux and Germany) may be located next to the TUSCA(N)-territory (Northern
Italy).
Also the Etruscan deities TIUR, TIVR, TIV are related to Norse and English roots TI'WAR,
TIWES.
In an overview these names may be listed according to their structures as follows:
Language
Type 1 Type 2 Type 3 Type 4
Keyword Keyword Keyword Keyword
DI* DEI* TIW* TU*
1 “Ancient” Territory Sanskrit DYĀŪṢ
Latin 1 DIOVIS
ḌIAVS
Latin 2 DEIVUS
2 Baltic Lithuanian DIEVAS
Latvian DIEVS
3 Prussian Old Prussian DEIWS
DEYWIS
Sudovian DEIVAS
4 GB and Scandinavia Old Norse TI'WAR
Old English TIWES
5 Southern Germany – Southern (?) TUISCO
Northern Italy Germanic TUISTO
Etruscan TIUR, TUSCA(N)
TIVR,
TIV
In fact however the 5 letters (2 consonants and 3 vowels) had been chosen as representatives for the
linguistic categories Linguals - Gutturals - Palatals - Labials - Dentals.
Futhark ᚠ-ᚢ-ᚦ-ᚨ-ᚱ
(“f-i-th-a-r")
VITHAR
ᚠ-ᚢ-ᚦ ᚦ-ᚨ-ᚱ
VIᚦ ThOR
ᚦ-ᚢ-ᚠ ᚱ-ᚨ-ᚦ
TIW, ROD
Slovene VODIN vidva,
vidve/
veʜdve
Germanic (V)ODIN
(W)ODIN
Latvians VIDES
Jutes JUTES
Goths *GUTANS
*GUT-
ÞIUDA
JEW(S) Children of the
Great Name:
IHV
Table 8 Overview of the 4 types of Keywords
Some of the original keywords (such as the VIDES [Latvians], JUTES [→ Jutland], GOThS
[*GUT-ÞIUDA "Gothic people" or *GUTANS (Goth) ], etc.) also had been to designate a people
and/or their language, in which the 5 main symbols for the linguistic categories might have been
specified.
The runic keyword ᚠ-ᚢ-ᚦ-ᚨ-ᚱ
Compared to the numerous keywords for the peoples' names and their sky-gods' names the first 5
characters of the runic keyword ᚠ-ᚢ-ᚦ-ᚨ-ᚱ ( “f-i-th-a-r" or VITHAR ) may also be investigated for
the traces of a hidden mythical name. To our surprise the singular name seemed to be composed to
include the following 4 names: ᚠ-ᚢ-ᚦ ( Viᚦ ), ᚦ-ᚢ-ᚠ ( TIW ), ᚦ-ᚨ-ᚱ ( ThOR ) and ᚱ-ᚨ-ᚦ ( ROD ).
The first two names ( Viᚦ and TIW ) seemed to be the oldest names. The other couple ( ThOR and
ROD ) seems to belong to the later set of additional names. The vowel O may also be interpreted as
an /ɑɑ/ or an /æ/ :
The Younger Futhark corresponding to the Elder Futhark ansuz rune is ᚬ, called óss. It is
transliterated as ą. This represented the phoneme /ɑɑ/, and sometimes /æ/ (also written ᛅ)
and /o/ (also written ᚢ). 9
Listing these 22 letters in a hierarchical overview I noticed the name DIAVS as a set of
representative letters for the 5 categories: the lingual D, the palatal I, the guttural A, the labial V,
and the dental S.13
Krodo
Jacob Grimm documents some references to Krodo, but is suspicious for their seriousness. Krodo
may be a Saxon deity, but also there may have been a Slavic deity Krodo or Rod, or even Radigast
(related to Mercury and Wuotan) which either had been borrowed from the Slavs or borrowed to the
Slavs19.
Bothe's Sassenchronik (Leibn. 3, 286) relates under the year 780, that King Charles,
during his conquest of the East Saxons, overthrew on the Hartesburg an idol similar to
Saturn (Kronos), which the people called Krodo20.
15 Sorbs traditionally speak the Sorbian languages (also known as "Wendish" and "Lusatian"), closely related to the
Polish, Kashubian, Czech and Slovak.[5] Sorbian is an officially recognized minority language in Germany. Sorbs
are linguistically and genetically closest to the Czechs and Poles.
16 Source (in German) Die Slawen - Unsere geheimnisvollen Vorfahren | MDR Geschichte
17 Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/slovo - - From Proto-Balto-Slavic *ślawas, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱléwos
(“fame”).
18 The Unification of Medieval Europe
19 A Scenario for the Medieval Christianization of a Pagan Culture
20 Page 139 in Grimm's Teutonic Mythology - Scribd (1888) labeled (26)
Rod (“Root”)
In the early religion of the Slavs, the god of the sky was *Deiwos[7] or *Div,[8][7][9]
but then he was replaced by Rod. *Deiwos was the same as the Proto-Indo-European
*Dyeus (cf. Sanskrit Deva, Latin deus ("god"), Greek Zeus, Old High German Tiwaz,
Lithuanian Dievs).[10]
Rod is an indirect, Slavic successor of the Indo-European god *Dyeus, who was "Lord of Gods",
"Lord of Heaven", "King of Gods". First haircut (postriziny) was dedicated to him, where he and
rozhanitsy were given a meal and cut hair.[2] His cult lost its importance and in the ninth or tenth
century he was replaced by Perun, Svarog and/or Svetevid, which would explain his absence in the
pantheon of Vladimir the Great.[3][4][5].
Rod's name is confirmed in Old Church Slavonic and Old East Slavic sources about pre-
Christian religion. The name is derived from the Proto-Slavic word *rodъ meaning
"family", "birth", "harvest", "genus", "nature", and this word is derived from the Proto-
Indo-European root *wréh₂ds meaning "root"21.
Notes from Alphabetic properties in Old Persian cuneiform alphabet (condensed information):
Thirteen out of twenty-two consonants are invariant, regardless of the following vowel (that is, they
are alphabetic), while only six have a distinct form for each consonant-vowel combination (that is,
they are syllabic), and among these, only d and m occur in three forms for all three vowels. The
letters k, g do not occur before i, and j, v do not occur before u, so these consonants only have two
forms each. Sometimes medial long vowels are written with a y or v, as in Semitic. Diphthongs are
written by mismatching consonant and vowel: dai, or sometimes, in cases where the consonant does
not differentiate between vowels, by writing the consonant and both vowel components: cišpaiš. In
addition, three consonants, t, n, and r, are partially syllabic, having the same form before a and i, and
a distinct form only before u.
Old Avestan is quite close in grammar and lexicon to Vedic Sanskrit, the oldest preserved Indo-
Aryan language.
In Avestan the spelling MIΘRA might have resulted in a 5-letter word MIΘRA.
By isolating the L the architecture improves substantially. In the reorganized Old Persian alphabet
we may identify 7 triads. The script contains three vowels, a, i, u, and twenty-two consonants, k, x,
g, c, ç, j, t, θ, d, p, f, b, n and m, y, v, r, L, s, z, ś, and h. Four triads are homogeneous sets of
identical categories and the other 3 triads are sets of different categories.
In the upper line the symbols A, Ī, Θ, M, R describe the categorization of the Old Persian name
MiΘRa ( MiThRa ).
Table 13 Overview of the Sanskrit, Persian, Latin, Hebrew and Runic alphabets
A remarkable difference between the European and Indian languages is the categorical switch
between Dentals ↔ Linguals which is identifiable in the transits D ↔ Ḍ (and Ṣ ↔ S in the
(Sanskrit respectively Latin) version DIĀŪṢ ↔ ḌIAVS.
Overview of the incomplete 5-letter words with a lingual D, Z, T
A great number of languages may have started with complete 5-letter words, but lost a more of less
respectable number of letters. Usually these losses also modified the structures of the personal
pronouns. The following table illustrates how the deterioration may have proceeded. Only a few
series of deterioration may be listed:
Language / Key Key Key Key Key Key Key Keys Keys "I" (ego)
Alphabet DIOS DIUS DEUS DIEU DIOU DZEU DIA Z* TIV*
DIO DYU DEU DJU ZEUS
DIU DÈO DIU ZIISCh
DIÈ ZIU
Spanish DIOS YO
Italian DIO IO
Savoye DYU DE
(central)
Sicily DIU IU
Latin DEUS EGO
Portugal DEU EU
Romania
Logudorese DÉU(S) DÈO
Sardinian
Provencal DIÉU IÉU
French DIEU JE
Walloon DIU, DJI
DJU,
DIÈ
Nîmes DÏOU YIOU
Villar-St- DIOU IÒU
Pancrace (?) MË
Savoye DZEU DZOU
(Montagny)
Rumantsch DIA IA
(Surmiran)
Eischemtöi ZIISCH IICH
tschu
Old High ZIU IH
German
Greek ZEUS EGO
Etruscan TIUR, MI
TIVR,
TIV
Table 14 Deterioration of the words from The Sky-God Names and the Correlating Person
These variants clearly illustrate the spreading of the naming and derivations of the divine names.
Notes to the overview of the incomplete 5-letter words
• The divine names ZIISCH respectively ZIU illustrates the derivation of the ego-pronoun
IICH and IH.
• Antoine Hippolyte Bigot (1825 - 1897) wrote an interesting and beautiful poem in
Provencal, or to be more precise: the dialect of the city of Nîmes. The dialect proves the
correlation between the ego-pronouns (“yiou”, respectively “mïou”) and the divine name
(“Dïou”) which are contrasting to the Occitan versions “iéu” respectively “Diéu” as they
have been found in Frédéric Mistral's Mirèio).29
• The “Dïou”-spelling directly seems to refer to *Diou-piter, the PIE-root for Jupiter. Diou has
also been found in the dialect of Villar-St-Pancrace where the ego-pronouns are iòu më,
respectively m’ iòu 30
• The Savoyan words are documented in The Ego-pronouns and Divine Names in Savoy
French Dialects.
29 “Yiou” & “Dïou” in the dialect of Nimes – from: The Masking Language Old-Greek
30 Patois of Villar-St-Pancrace (for the moment this site unfortunately seems to have been lost) :
Personal pronouns: (Cas sujet Cas régime atone tonique direct indirect)
Sg. 1°p a (l’) iòu më, m’ iòu 2°p tü, t’ të, t’ tü 3°p M u(l), al ei(l) së lu ei F eilo la eilo N o, ul, la - lu - Pl. 1°p nû* nû*
2°p òû* vû* vû* 3°p M î(z) së lû* iè F eilâ (eilaz) lâ* eilâ
A Dictionary of “Noble Phonetic Quintets”
In PIE-languages the symbols may be categorized according to their linguistic categories Linguals,
Gutturals, Palatals, Labials, Dentals.
A few Languages may have conserved some of their original cores such as DYAUS, DIOVIS,
DIEVAS, DIEVS, DEIVUS, DEIWS, DEYWIS, DEIVAS, TI'WAR, TIWES, TUISCO, TUISTO.
These code-words contain the most important representatives of all linguistic categories.
In analogy to the noble gases with a "full" outer shell of valence electrons we may define the words
with a “full” quintet (5-set) of representative linguistic categories “noble 31 phonetic quintet32”. The
following lists are composed from the analysis in The Model of a Language as a Communication
Link.
The dictionary is structured in several lists to illustrate the diversity of the DIE*-, TIW*-, VIT*-,
VOD*-, VID*-, JUT*-, JEW*-, etc. families.
31 The six naturally occurring noble gases are helium (He), neon (Ne), argon (Ar), krypton (Kr), xenon (Xe), and the
radioactive radon (Rn).
32 A quintet is a group containing five members. It is commonly associated with musical groups, such as a string
quintet, or a group of five singers, but can be applied to any situation where five similar or related objects are
considered a single unit.
The VIT*-, VOD*-, VID*-, JUT*-, JEW*-, etc. families.
The dictionary is structured in several lists to illustrate the diversity of the DIE*-, TIW*-, VIT*-,
VOD*-, VID*-, JUT*-, JEW*-, etc. families.
Language Sort-key Noble Phonetic Quintets
Hinduism Mitra