oldeuropeanculture
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Hi all. I hope you are all happy and healthy.
In this post I would like to talk about the development of the toothed (serrated) cutting implements and the words used to describe these implements and the actions performed with them. I started my investigation as a pure linguistic one. I tried to find the origin of the Croatian, western Serbian word "rista" meaning harvester. But this investigation lead me to discovery of the word cluster is based on the root word "ri" which means something sharp and pointy like a tooth, cutting with something sharp and pointy like a tooth, chewing, scraping, gouging. What is amazing is that this word cluster actually describes the way these tools were developed in Paleolithic, Mesolithic and Neolithic, through people imitating nature. This word cluster has actually preserved the story of how humans invented toothed (serrated) blades by literally making artificial jaws. And this story was confirmed by the archaeological data, which I present in this post as well. This word cluster also offers the explanation why we find deer jaws in the oldest layers of the temple dedicated to the agricultural cult based around wheat.
The words from this cluster are found in In many European languages but the main concentration of these words is in Slavic languages, Germanic (particularly North Germanic) languages and the Irish language. However the full etymologies of all these words can be built using base words found only in Slavic languages. The distribution and etymologies of these "ri" words point to the possibility that these words could originally have come from the old language of the Neolithic or even Mesolithic I2a people.
I think that here we have a true linguistic fossil.
You can read more here:
http://oldeuropeanculture.blogspot.ie/2015/04/ri.html