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| author | Nicolas Vigier <boklm@mageia.org> | 2013-04-14 13:46:12 +0000 |
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diff --git a/zarb-ml/mageia-discuss/attachments/20100922/b2ca497c/attachment.html b/zarb-ml/mageia-discuss/attachments/20100922/b2ca497c/attachment.html new file mode 100644 index 000000000..2b7303ad1 --- /dev/null +++ b/zarb-ml/mageia-discuss/attachments/20100922/b2ca497c/attachment.html @@ -0,0 +1,51 @@ +<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> +<html> +<head> + <meta content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" http-equiv="Content-Type"> +</head> +<body text="#000066" bgcolor="#33ccff"> +Le 21/09/2010 20:28, Wolfgang Bornath a écrit : +<blockquote + cite="mid:AANLkTi=ajzvN-eXjruxx01Tsvb+yyFsiZRR09sYu7R91@mail.gmail.com" + type="cite"> + <pre wrap="">2010/9/21 Maurice Batey <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:maurice@bcs.org.uk"><maurice@bcs.org.uk></a>: + </pre> + <blockquote type="cite"> + <pre wrap="">Why does the + + <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.searchgodsword.org/lex/grk/view.cgi?number=3095he">http://www.searchgodsword.org/lex/grk/view.cgi?number=3095he</a> + +pronunciation differ from others in here?! + </pre> + </blockquote> + <pre wrap=""> Maybe because it is run by a USA based christian organisation who +focus on the bible while most people here who gave their prononciation +are native Greek speakers ?</pre> +</blockquote> +Because this thread is entitled "what is the origin of the word +mageia", I just add the following little piece of information. I had +dinner yesterday in a very pleasant japanese restaurant in Paris, and, +well, one of the participants was an erudite scholar, specialized in +ancient greek. I asked him about "mageia". He said it was a very +interesting term, the origin of which is still much debated. It is +generally thought to be linked to some proper names, like Machaon, a +warrior on the side of the greeks in the Trojan War. Most +interestingly Machaon was a valued surgeon and medic.<br> +My friend said that the root *"mak-"* (considered by philologists to +be linked to both "Machaon" and "mageia") was considered to be a +derivative of a Persian word, meaning something like : *vault*, +*protective vault* and in a more abstact derived meaning : *protective +knowledge* (hence the link with Machaon a character mastering such +protective knowledge as medecine and surgery and the drift toward the +"magic" meaning).<br> +The debate about the word is not about what I just summarized, he +said, but rather is this : "are proper names like Machaon, for +chararcters linked to protective knowledge, the origin of the term +which then drifted to a common name like "mageia", or, conversely was +the common name mageia the primary term which then drifted to secondary +proper names such as Machaon?"<br> +Some notion of 'protective knowledge' for the proper name of a Linux +project is perhaps not so bad, don't you think so ?<br> +<br> +</body> +</html> |