Minoan Signs by GJK Campbell-Dunn

Author:GJK Campbell-Dunn
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: BookWhirl.com
Published: 2014-06-12T00:00:00+00:00

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They resolved to leave a common memorial, and for this they built a labyrinth a little way beyond Lake Moeris, close by the city of Crocodiles. I myself saw it...This labyrinth surpasses even the pyramids. It has twelve courts surrounded by colonnades, with perfectly aligned gateways leading from one to another, six courts on the north side and six on the south side, one ranging with another, and all enclosed within continuous outer walls ; and there are rooms on two stories, some under ground and others built over them, three thousand in all, fifteen hundred of each kind.”

HERODOTUS II, 148

On the Egyptian Labyrinth (F rima “produce young”)

TA2 = TYA (SKIN) Fula, Sumerian PWS *T = TY , *A = A

PWS ta, tan “cloth”, tà “to spread out”, PWN TÀND “spread out”. Ful tādorde, tādor’de “ein Tuch, das die Frauen über die Brust binden”, tafandi “vershnittener Stier”, taire “Fleisch ohne Knochen”, Fulani taba’āwol “folded native paper”, tāra “put on a cloth, of a woman”. The Egyptian sign Gardiner F27 & 28 “cow’s skin” refers to “hide”, “leather”, “rug”, “mammals generally”. Johnston “Bantu” (1922:378) has tata “skin”. Sumerian tag “saisir, tisser, tresser” possibly refers to cloth. But Fulani tigga “peg out a skin”. Fula teŋgre / teŋge “skinned animal”, laral / lare “skin”. Peul lēbol, lēbi “poil”. Palmer (1980: 31) says “It [the Linear B system] makes distinctions superfluous to Greek : between (a) plain,(b) palatalised, and (c) labialised consonants”. He quotes TA2 as an example. Our examples of TA2 lack the Y. Fulani has ta’a “cut”, with taire, ta’e “a cut, division, section”, “strips of boneless meat for sale”. English has the verb taw “dress skins into leather”.

TWE (BOW) Fula PNC *T = T, *UA = WE

PWS tua “to hit, to strike”, PWN TU, TUM “to throw or shoot”, Fulani tufa “to pierce, bore, inject”, tuppa “probe, lance”, tura “to stoop, bow down, bend”, turnde, turde “a bow”, Peul Y.B. tuffude “percer”, Ful tufa “durchbohren”. Bantu tu,m “to shoot”, Voltaic *to “to draw a bow”, Mande tūfa, tūfo “to draw a bow”. Fula feeta (A) “arrow”. Sumerian tun “massacrer”. Compare English tug (used of pulling chains, traces etc).

TWO (COFFIN) Fula PNC *T= T, *UA = WO

PWS tú “to carry”. PWN THU, (THUD, THUK), TUT “to carry”. Ful tuda “lagern sich niederlassen”, Fulani tunda “array oneself in one’s best”, tūkna “cause to proceed”, tura “to stoop, bow down”, tunwa “be dirty, unclean”, tūya “to pile up”, V. Kissi tua “to take”, Bantu tú-ad “to carry, to fetch”. Greek soros “coffin” has s from tw. Other words worth considering include tumpisa “lie down”, tumtiDa “to be very old” . Sumerian tumu4 “porter”.

These signs confirm Palmer’s (1980 : 31) view that Linear A had palatalised and labialised consonants. These distinctions are “superfluous to Greek”. So the script was created for a “language of a different type”, an impression “reinforced by the failure to distinguish r and l”. He also compares dapu2rito with labyrinthos.

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