Gerry wrote
> What about the word "ecology"? Would that be present in all
> languages?
Given that Ecology was a "neologism" coined by Ernst Haeckel in the
19th Century - from the Greek Ecos = Household, and Logos = Word, I
doubt it. Ecos comes from the Mycenaean *woikos, which I understand
has good Indo-European roots.
One concept which seems to be an early version of the "web" concept
of Ecology is the Anglo-Saxon word "Wyrd" (from which we get the word
weird, but which originally meant something like "interconnected" -
in the sense of the invisible things that link us all together - the
pattern that connects.
Other languages may have similar concepts, but I doubt that there
would be a common word for them all.
Regards
John