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Le 21/09/2010 20:28, Wolfgang Bornath a écrit :
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<pre wrap="">2010/9/21 Maurice Batey <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:maurice@bcs.org.uk"><maurice@bcs.org.uk></a>:
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<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?!
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<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>
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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>
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