Today's Topics:
Etymology of "god".
Subgenius Digest V2 #22
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Date: Sat, 27 Oct 90 00:16:06 EDT
From: Steven Mesnick <pro-angmar!steffan@alphalpha.com>
Subject: Etymology of "god".
To: subgenius@mc.lcs.mit.edu
I remember reading somewhere that during the period of the Jewish "Gaonic"
academies and thru the Middle Ages, the Tetragrammaton actually *was*
pronounced. The circumstances were that a Gaon (sort of a combination
Sage/Guru/Jewish Bishop) could communicate the True Name to a trusted student
once every seven years. If anyone has any better information, I'd be happy to
get it.
Jeez, this is a pretty hi-falutin' discussion for this net, y'know....
Steve Mesnick
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Date: Sat, 27 Oct 90 15:13:27 -0400
From: valis@athena.mit.edu
Subject: Subgenius Digest V2 #22
To: Subgenius@mc.lcs.mit.edu
In Subgenius Digest #22, thant%horus.esd.sgi.com@sgi.com writes:
>Might the word 'god' be a corruption of the word 'yod'?
No way. It looks somewhat the same in ModEng, but 'god' has been in
our language a long time, and is cognate to German 'gott', Gothic
'guth', and all the other words for 'god' in the Germanic languages.
That means that it has been around for >2500 years, and its original
form, something like *godaz, looks nothing like 'yod', even
assuming contact between the Baltic (where the Germanic peoples were
back then), and the Middle East.
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