The Origin of the Word "Calendar" (eastern-Slavic Languages)



Posted: Monday, October 18, 2010

by IvanPetryshyn
Ivan Petryshyn

It is well-known that the word "calendar" seems to have been originated from Latin kalendaris = "coelendaris" which has been accepted by nearly all the Modern Languages, but...

1. if the word "coelendaris" has 2 parts, the first of which is "coelum" (sky), then, the meaning of the word will be quite different: "donated by the sky" which in Eastern Slavic could have been "Kolodar" = "Coelendar" = "Calendar" = "Kalendar".

2. the thesis can be supported by the following:

a/ in Slavic the word "kolo" had also the meaning of the sky;

b/ the "Kolo Neba/Dnebes/Nebes " had the same connotation as the German "Zeitquellen" -

"Zeit" = "time", "Quellen" (well /reconstructed prehistoric * hw/kwellen), thus the meaning of the "KoloDar" is the same as that of the "Kolo Chasu" (the Circle of the Time");

c/ the well-known Ukrainian "kolodyaz'" has a close/the same connotation as the Russian "Kladiez' " (a depositary) / quite possible that besides the wells where the people kept the water, there were some other wells (Kolodyazi/Kladiezi) where the old time-accountants/astronomers kept tablets with different notes/records;

d/ the German verb "quellen" has the meaning of "to stream" - the Time recordred by the Kolodar/Coelendar flies and flew like a stream: just to recollect the saying "Time runs/flows";

e/ the German word for the wheel is "Rad" which is just the same name of the Old Slavic/Indo-European "Rado/Radu" (= *Kweel); the Latin word for the wheel is also "Rota", but in Latin we can find also the word "tornus" which correlates with the Germanic "Thorn" and Slavic "Poern/Perun" which have an immediate mythological characters united with the Sky;

e/ the Latin word for the well is "fons" which in the Relicts of the names of the Ukrainian rivers and places is "DHON" = "dno" or "water"; the Ukrainian for the Latin "fons" is "dzhereloh" which correlates with the Lettish "Dze:rns" (water);

f/ the Latin "coelum" = Slavic "kolo" = Germanic "quellen" - the basins of the water;

g/ the other Latin word "aether" (*Hwaeter) has its Germanic counterpart " kwellen" and the Slavic "voda" ("Hwader);

h/ naturally, the water had been expected not only from the Earth but also from the sky, the German "Himmeln" (*Kwillmen/Kwimmeln);

i/ thus the KWILL = KWELL= COEL = KOL - the whole but not the completed story of the Slavic and Ukrainian KALENDAR = KOLODAR - time and water giving.

Ivan Petryshyn USA
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