This small discovery led me to believe that the first sounds that a person began to utter were related to his physiology. The state of pleasure, in which saliva is released and the sound el appears, is remembered, fixed in memory or at the genetic level, and in the future, people transmitted the pleasure of life with this sound. The soft sound el is a natural sound that was formed involuntarily, meaningless and thoughtless, expressing pleasant moments of eating. So it was remembered once and the soft sound el became stronger, matured and sounded like our usual l, although the meaning of pleasure, enjoyment remained for it. On its prehistoric base appeared a huge number of words, the meaning of which can somehow be reduced to the common denominator joy, pleasure, delight, euphoria. What words could form this sound, this protoroot? Probably, the word lubov (love) comes to mind immediately and quite justifiably! Laska (caress), ulybka (smile), lest (flattery), l`zya (to allow), legko (easily), lizat (to lick), l`nut (to cling)all go back to pleasure and delight. Including when the image of the highest bliss discloses a person. Hence the concept of divinity in different languages: this is Helios, and the Bible, and Israel, and Arabic word Allah, where the sound l has not lost its softness.
It became clear to me that the soft sound el is an involuntary sound, which was born in the depths of human feelings. The usual l is the sound is already meaningful, introduced into the ancient communication system. This meaningful sound formed the proto-root, which combined with other sounds to create words. Knowing the semantic source, it is easy to understand how later meanings appeared.
The soft sound of l, of course, was not the only one that participated in the multi-faceted meaning-making. However, after that, it was easier for me to understand how other meaningful sounds developed. It was a matter of logic.
2. The growling sound of aggression r
If there is a sound of something extraordinarily pleasant, there must be an opposite sound unpleasant and frightening. The opposite of the soft l sound is the aggressive, growling r sound. It is no coincidence that children begin to pronounce it after their teeth grow. Growling, as a rule, was accompanied by a demonstration of teeth, and the sound warned that the enemy will stratch. Hence the whole galaxy of rvanyh (torn) words: rychat (to growl), ristat (to run), rvat (to tear), rubit (to hack), rezat (to carve), rana (injury).
3. Ra is the sun, ar is the earth
Even the most ancient protoroots ra and ar are associated with the aggression of the mercilessly scorching sun, charring the skin and burning all living things, from which it was possible to hide only in the ground. In this way the ancient meanings appeared: ra with the meaning the sun and ar with the meaning the earth.
4. The sounds of breathing: kho, go, kha, ga, ka, aga, po and others. Ego and echo
Language was born out of feelings and meanings. The sense organs gave a person a multi-colored palette of such creative associations. Everyone hears how he or she breathes it is not surprising that the sounds of breathing became the foundation of a number of protoroots and formed a variety of words. Even in the very word dykhanie (breath) this ancient semantic intuition remains. Really, what do we hear when we breathe? The natural, independent of our will, breathing sound is the sound kh, combined with various vowel sounds: kha, kho, khe, khi, akh, okh and ukh. The sound kh has become a language protoroot with common meanings related to breathing.
Since ancient times, the sounds of breathing have become associated with the human soul. Breathing means that you are alive. If he\she does notbreathe, it means that his\her soul has left. For example, when I was a child, my mother would often tell me when she was buttoning the top buttons of my clothes: You are open-hearted. I knew that soul is my breathed chest and to give up the ghost means to lose the kho, the air. You can easily remember the words formed by the simplest sounds of breathing: dykho (trachea), tikho (quiet), ukho (ear), ekho (echo), likho (evil, trouble). Even Godbhogagrants breath. This group includes interjections: akh, okh, ukh and ekh. Even the particle ish has its physiological origin in the respiratory.
However, everything evolves and in the process of evolution, protoroots found new meanings. There is a simple example. At rest, a person breathes easily, freely: inhale and then exhale. Sounds are simple, ordinary. If a person moves for a long time, and even uphill, and even with the luggage, and even in the formation of his fellow tribesmen, who set a certain rhythm what happens to the breath? There is not enough air. Breathing becomes heavy. The sounds of breathing also change instead of a light sound kh, you can already hear a heavy, slightly hoarse combination of sounds kh and g.
Let us complicate the situation. Imagine that our ancient ancestors were walking along the mountains and valleys, and suddenly the path ends where must they go next? Tired and out of breath, people started looking around and presumably showing each other where to go. What sounds would they use to support their gestures? It is clear sounds of heavy and open breathing, with sound ga at the base. This sound, mixed with hoarseness and fatigue, formed one of the most significant protoroot ga, received the meaning of the way\path, movement and direction.
As a rule, the protoroot ga marked ways, paths, roads, trails, passages, that is, those places where people could move. It is included in the names of many rivers, because rivers are natural roads where it was possible to move along the shore and along the water surface. It is enough to recall the names of the rivers: Volga, Riga, Onega, Selenga, Koelga, Angara, Ganges, Pinega, Daugava, Siuga, Galis and hundreds of others. Somewhere, roads and rivers have given names to cities: Gaaga (The Hague), Malaga, Gava, Gannover (Hanover), Gamburg (Hamburg), Kaluga, Praga (Prague), Pariga (modern Paris), Vichuga and many more places where people have moved for thousands of years.
In colloquial speech, the first words that come to mind are noga (leg), dogora (road), telega (cart), gat (the way through the marshes), pogano (lousy) and even gad (bastard).
With the vowel a, the oldest aga (aha) formed. Aga is the way back and forth. Gradually, the meaning of return acquired the meaning of confirmation and even consent.
However, the evolution of breath sounds did not end with the meaning of way or direction. Gradually, the sound ga became associated with those who lead the way, with those who go ahead and therefore know where to go. The leading becomes the knowing. Next comes a reinterpretation of protoroot the basis remains the same, but the pronunciation from the sounds kh and g become closer to the consonant k. New diverse meanings of this sound appear leading, knowing, main, smart, and thinking. Although these meanings may seem varied at first glance, they all indicate the ability to think. What words formed with protoroot ka in its various shades? First, they touched the head. For example, kapusta (cabbage)in Russian it means an empty head, kaun (melon), kachan (head of cabbage), kalgan (head), kapa (kind of hat), kapyushon (hood), kepka (cap) and others. The words khalif (the khalif), kagan (a title of imperial rank in the Turkic and Mongolic languages), kasta (caste) and the Capitol have the same protoroot. In Sanskrit, the ancient language of India, you can find the same root word kapata, which has the meaning trick, deception, but comes from the same meaning: the ability to think. The myth of the sisters Kapata and Opata, where, on the contrary, Kapata was a deceiver, and Opata was deceived herself, preceded the ancient Greek myth of Apata, the goddess of lies and deception. Maloyanisol dialect of my ancestors has a word gaka, which means big brother. How could such word appear? I think that this is the first-born, going ahead. Moreover, there are many of such interesting phenomena in the language.