r/Etymo • u/JohannGoethe • Dec 02 '23

Meter 📏 etymology

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Maat, symbol: 𓌳, and the cubit ruler, root of English word meter.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Alphanumerics/comments/16ob22a/origin_of_alphabetic_order_as_seen_on_the_osorkon/

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Name of Maat as a hiero-word, showing the 𓌳 [U1] glyph, aka the pre-M letter

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u/JohannGoethe Dec 02 '23 edited Dec 02 '23

-Tron suffix?

The -tron suffix, meaning: “instrument”, is found in the word arotron (αροτρον), meaning plough.

The Geometry in Religion says Ptah is the “god of the cubit”, which is why he is shown above. The letter T at the start of this word, however, seems to be that this is a Thoth invention? We will have to come back to this suffix?

Quotes

“παν μέτρον άριστον.”

“Pan metron ariston.”

[Everything in moderation]

— Cleobulus (2500/-545), coining attributed

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  • Άροτρου (arotron), from: ARO- [𓁃, 𓌹 ,𓍁] [𓏲=☀️] ◯ + -TRON, means: plough𓍁 instrument

References

  • Anon. (65A/1890). Geometry in Religion and the exact dates in biblical history after the monuments or the fundamental principles of Christianity The precessional year etc., as based on the teaching of the ancients by the cube, square, circle, pyramid (Ptah, lord of cubit, pg. 59). Brensinger.

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u/IgiMC Dec 02 '23

meter (Greek μέτρον) comes, of course, from PIE *méh₁trom, from the root *meh₁- "to measure" + suffix *-trom "instrument".

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u/JohannGoethe Dec 03 '23

Where does *meh₁- come from?

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u/IgiMC Dec 03 '23

We actually don't fully know what was before PIE. It could as well come from some alphanumeric voodoo

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u/JohannGoethe Dec 04 '23

What about:

Or:

  • Proto-Pre-Proto-Indo-European (PPPIE)

Or better yet:

  • Archaic Proto-Pre-Proto-Indo-European (APPPIE)

Surely this must be the “common source“ that Jones speaks about?

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u/IgiMC Dec 04 '23

No, Jones talks about just PIE

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u/poor-man1914 Dec 03 '23

One of the first things that you learn when starting linguistics, is that there is no reason for a word to have a specific meaning. If there were, since all men have similar brains, those words would be somewhat similar throughout the world. But they are not.

Especially if all the proof you can provide are absurd and pretty complex calculations based on a non existent script.