From: whitedawn
Message: 43447
Date: 2006-02-16
Dear Sirs/Madams,
I have been working for a long period on semantics concerning Serbian and its relationship with other Indo-European languages. A few years ago I “invented” the “formula” SUR (HORS)-BEL-GON + UM (*sr-bl-gn-m-) as a self-generating “well-spring” of the Indo-European. In January 2006, I found out that Russian linguist and archeologist Nicholas Mar had been offering a similar “recipe” in the beginning of the last century and it was SAL-BER-ROSH-YON. Of course, serious scientist had rejected his “monogenetic” theory immediately and exposed it to mockery and deepest contempt in later times.
Unfortunately, I found just a few pages on Internet in Russian regarding this “unredeemed” Mar’s work whereof I was unable to see how he achieved the above-mentioned “speech-principle”. However, I have been profoundly astonished seeing that someone had come to the same “upshot” much earlier than I did. I think it is impossible that two men, separated in time and space, could have come to the same conclusion quite independently, especially in the field of “lingua” science.
I must admit I have “revealed” the “well-spring” rather intuitively. In fact, I thought that the first articulated word must be in a close relation with the “effluence” of Earth-life – the sun! Even today, night causes anxiety and fear and we could only imagine how it looked in ancient and prehistoric times. Undoubtedly, prehistoric men must have expected the next appearing of the sun (morning, sunrise, dawn) as a pure salvation and deliberation of a fearsome “night confinement”. On the other side, if we accept the evolutionary theory of human speech development as an undeniable fact we must also assume that human speech must have commenced from a certain point in time and space. It means some “combustible” articulated word had to be the first one, as a self-generated wellspring of other morphemes and compound words. I think, that “primeval” syllable had been first “enriched” by affixation and afterwards the subtraction, metathesis and agglutination stepped on the scene.
Following the above way of thinking, I concluded that the first spoken word must ultimately be the name of the one of most ancient sun-deities. My mother language is Serbian and I decided to exam its “internal logic” and “semantic values” of different morphemes starting with sun gods Sur (Sanskrit Surya, Russ. Заря, Sirius), Bel (Bal, Bel Amon, Belbel, Belial) and Hors (Horus, Osiris, Sirius, Orion, Chris/t) . Actually I anticipated that the real meaning of the noun Serb (Serbli) is “zora bela” (belo - white zora - dawn), a compound word of two sun deities (Sur, Bel). It would not surprise me if the name of Israel emerged from the same source (I/Sra-bel, Zerubbabel, Azriel). Additionally there are the names Hebrew and Shebrew (Sabrata – “grain market”, Euphrates), which are very close to Serbian medieval common folk name Sebri (Serb. sabrat, sabrati - brother, collect); Arab صبري sabru has meaning “patience” (self-control), Eng. sober; Serb. sabran (self-controlled).
Now (after many years of in-depth researches) I am almost sure that every single word in Serbian vocabulary is explainable and their etymology and semantics are completely transparent downwardly to the above-mentioned basis. Indo-European and Semitic were the probable “offspring” of the same Proto-Language, which I called SURBELANIUM. Naturally, I am aware of the possibility that a human mind could be easily brought into a state of delusion, especially when considering the subject of potential personal or national “importance” and even “pride”. When I entered this list, I expected that my posts would not be rejected so quickly, at least not before a certain level of critical approach has been exercised or a kind of observation that is more serious. Nevertheless, I understand that moderators have to protect the credibility of this discussion group and keep the professional discourse at a highest level possible, but there is always possible to “throw a baby out with the bath water”.
The name of the sun begins with sibilant in many of the Indo-European languages (English sun, German Sohne, Russian солнце, Czech slunce, Latin sol, Latvian saule, Swedish sol, Icelandic sól, Persian shams etc); only IE language where it starts with velar (or even vowel?) is Greek (at least as far as I know; ήλιος helios). Yet the Hebrew fits into the above scheme – shemesh. The origin of this word is quite clear in Serbian. It comes from the basis Sur/gna (zora – dawn, suknuti – sudden burst of fire, šar – world, suri orao – white eagle, šarka – a sort of venomous snake, žarko – red-hot, šuriti – to skin a slaughtered swine with hot water) with the velar palatalized, the loss of the sound “r” and a small metathesis (gn > ng; sur-gna àsur-nkeàsurnceàsunce). Russian solnce could be from the same source where “l” replaced the sound “r”.
Dusan Vukotic
PS
I hope moderators would allow this letter to appear on the list and thus give me a chance to explain my theory in tinniest details.