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 becomes closer to the consonant k. And there are new diverse meanings of this sound: leading, knowing, main, smart, thinking. Although these meanings may seem varied at first glance, they all indicate the ability to think. So, the name of the Chinese game Go combines several meanings of this sound. At first I was surprised at the speculative nature of my conclusions, but than I immersed in this speculation more, that I understood my rightness again and again.
What words were formed with protoroot ka in its various shades? First of all, they touched the head, which is not only to wear a hat (by the way, this is also reflected in the words). For example, kapusta (cabbage)in Russian it means 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. And in the 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. And there are a lot of such interesting phenomena in the language.
There is another meaning derived from the sounds of breathing the Greek word ego (εγώ), which translates as I. In the older maloyanisol dialect, the word I sounds simpler go. Moreover, my grandmother did not pronounce a solid go, but again mixed sounds g and kh, closer to kho. The e sound in the Greek word ego is the sound of belonging. Literally, it means this is me. If we compare the Greek ego and the Russian word ekho (echo), it will be clear that it is the same. The echo is a returning sound of my voice, this is me.
All the basic sounds and protoroots associated with human physiology and its primary needs. You dont have to go far just remember your basic needs. What is the most important thing for a person? It needs air to breathe, it needs food to keep from starving, and it needs water. In addition, he\she needs to continue the family line, needs security, a roof over head, and other needs that are reflected in the language. Therefore, it is objective that besides the sounds of breathing, the first roles in the meaning-making had the sounds of food.
Man is a mammalian creature, breastfed. This is why, from infancy, from unconscious memory, we reproduce this deep key sound of the compressed lips m and the following sound of the opening lipsma. In almost all languages the word mama (mother) includes this ancient, imbibed with mothers milk, protoroot. But with feeding, the child uses not only the lips but also the tongue. The tongue presses the nipple of the breast to the palate, and the milk falls on the taste buds of the childs tongue under pressure. What sound is formed when the tongue pressed to the roof of the mouth? It is a sound n. In some languages this sound forms the word nana with the meaning mother. Nurses are traditionally called nyanyas (wet-nurses). And the famous nyam-nyam (yum-yum) is just a fusion of two feeding sounds n and m. By the way, when it is especially delicious, children like to click their tongue and pronounce the famous childrens word naka, which means delicious. In English this word sounds a little different: nice. Among the Greeks, nostimo (νόστιμο), although it has the same meaning nice.
However, there was not always enough food. Sometimes it was necessary to eat anything spoiled or fermented fruit or carrion. How does the body react to harmful food? It rejects it. And what is the sound produced while vomiting? The sound is complex: both growling and plaintive. Over time, the sound formed is one of the oldest protoroot mr with meaning mertvyy (dead).
There are a huge number of words with this root in the world. In Russian, this word is smert (death) with all its derivatives: smrad (stench), merzost (abomination) and others. This is the word moroz (frost) that kills all living things. This is the more (sea), the famous mertvaya voda (dead water), which is not suitable for drinking, but has nevertheless healing properties, and has retained its name in Russian folk tales about living water and dead water. This is the Greek God of dreams Morpheus and even the science morfologiya (morphology). Surprisingly, the word mir (peace) is also formed by this protoroot. But the interpretation of this word is a little creepy: mir is when everyone is killed, all are dead, there is no one to fight and the war ends.
The sounds of the food include protoroots gr, kr, hr. Their meaning goes back to the concept of krepkiy (strong)this is the sound of krosheniya (crumbling), khrusta (crunching). It appeared when a person had to chew bones, or sand and stones enter into his mouth with food. And the sand khrustel (crunched), and the teeth kroshilis (crumbled)! Next to them growling sounds of aggression appear. 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 fight), rvat (to tear), rubit (to hack), rezat (to cut), rana (wound).
Another palette of protoroots formed the sounds of drinking. In ancient times, there were no glasses and mugs, so our ancestors drank either from reservoirs, or, to get running water into the palm of their hand, they drew it in, as sometimes children or tourists do. What kind of sound is produced by such a drink? Only the sound of ms. M is the sound of food, but in this case it is liquid food, the consumption of which is accompanied by a whistling sound the sound s. It formed protoroot with the meaning drinking water. It can be found everywhere in the names of localities, where water is suitable for drinking. There are a lot of such toponyms\place names on the planet I found more than three hundred of them on the map, although I assume that there are many more. This is our Moskva reka (Moscow river), the Mississippi, the Temza (the Thames), and lake Michigan. This root has been preserved in various languages for example, in Japanese, where there is still the word mizi with the meaning water and there is the word mizimi with the meaning lake.
Like all protoroots, the sounds of drinking too, lived their own lives, grew up and changed. So, in a number of languages, the sound of closed lips, the sound of eating m disappeared, and only the whistling s remained. For example, in the Turkic languages su means water. The English word sea is similar. And somewhere the whistling s evolved into hissing sounds.