Haeckel may have coined the word "ecology" but doesn't mean that it
is the first sense that a universal concept was introduced into
academe.
Certainly am interested in the term "wyrd". So the meaning is
interconnected? How many people know that!!!

Gerry



--- In Nostratica@yahoogroups.com, "John <jdcroft@...>"
<jdcroft@...> wrote:

> 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