Thursday, June 20, 2013


 MUD      ADaMaH     Aleph-Dalet-Mem
(A)DUMB-ah _ _אדמה   [DM  à  MD]
ROOTS:  There is no Indo-European (IE) "root" for MUD.  The etymology of MUD is MUDDLED with theories involving darkness and moral impurity.   MUD is easily an M-D reversal of the Hebrew ד-מ  Dalet-Mem
/D-M etymon:  ADaMaH, earth.  Dutch modder is mud; the German is Matsch. [RW]

Nasalize that MUD and one gets French monde (world) and Spanish and Tagalog mundo (world) --
 as in the previous post. 

      אדמה  ADaMaH (earth – Genesis 2:5) is originally more about soil-earth, than planet Earth. 

  דמן DoaMeN is dung or "dung-heap" – II Kings 9:37) . See "DUNG."  For ניד NaYD, earth piled up in a mound,  see  "DUNE."  Aramaic clay is טין DTEEYN (Daniel 2:41), a relative of Arabic taijen (clay, silt, mud) and טנף   DTaNahF, dirty, and the verb to soil or make dirty (Songs 5:3). The nasal and dental (nose and tooth letters) have shifted.

"Man" words from  אדם ADaM are at "DEMOCRAT," while "world" or regional  ד-מ  Dalet-Mem  words are at "MUNDANE."
BRANCHES:   אדמה  ADaMaH (earth, ground) ought to link up with words like dam (earth for the Kiowa Indians), din (ground in Thai), tanah (ground in Malay), tian (field in Chinese) and timani (mainland in Eskimo).  German has a dental-nasal word that matches the popular notion of Adam being formed form from a reddish clay: ton is clay or potter's earth.  In Bahasa Malaysia tanah, like  אדמה ADaMaH, means both dirt and land.  Finnish muta is mud.  In Saami, the Uralic language of Lapland, land or earth is aednan.   In Latvian, duna is a mass of moist earth or mud.  Thai dirt is din. Dünya in Turkish is earth and world.

In the New World :  mitu , mud, clay  ß    S-N (Quechua or Inca); *ómat'   earth, dust  --   ß  S-D (Proto-Hokan/PNT);
'emat earth, soil  --   ß  S-D     (Ipai/Hokan).
 The name CANADA originated around 1535 from the Huron-Iroquoian word Kanata meaning "settlement" or "land,"  referring to the future cite of Quebec City (Canadian Encyclopedia). The northern land is spelled "Kanada" in French and Inuktitut.  Another theory has the guttural a G.  Either way, the guttural-nasal-dental word meaning "land" is likely a reversal of אדמה  ADaMaH (earth, land). [Kinneret Mozeson]

The Kannada in India came from an unrelated word which had an R (liquid).  Bengali mati, earth, soil, ground, is a reversed but solid אדמה  ADaMaH (earth, land).
 אדמה ADaMaH also means "ground," while standing one's ground is   עמידה [A]MeeYDaH.  More D-M earthiness at "DUNG."
  All Slavic "earth" terms are Z-M, like Polish ziemia and Slovak zem – from a reversal of  אדמה ADAMah (ground, soil, land, country).  The Z-from- ד Dalet/D shift is via Aramaic, and is otherwise rare in IE (except Spanish).  ZM also appears in Farsi "ground:" zamin.
TAN (yellowish brown) is an earthy color, a dental-nasal with no Indo-European "root."
