What is Etymology?
Etymology is the Study of Words, it is also the Search for the true meanings of words.
More specifically etymology is the study of the origin of words and the way in which their meanings have changed throughout history.
English speakers need to understand that the English language is equivocal, but what does that mean? Equivocal language is language that has multiple possible meanings or is difficult to understand. It can also mean uncertain. The word equivocal can be used to describe confusing speech or writing.
Equivocal language in communication
Equivocal communication can be used to deceive or evade. It can appear ambiguous, contradictory, tangential, obscure, or even evasive.
Equivocal – A term that is equivocal or ambiguous
Equivocate – To use equivocal or ambiguous language. To express oneself in terms which admit of different interpretations. with intent to DECEIVE, to be willfully misleading by use of DOUBLE MEANINGS. To prevaricate; to LIE.
Semantics
Semantics – The meaning of a word, phrase, sentence, or text. The branch of Linguistics and Logic concerned with meaning.
Formal semantics studies the logical aspects of meaning, such as sense, reference, implication, and logical form,
Lexical semantics studies word meanings and word relations, and conceptual semantics, which studies the cognitive structure of meaning.
Rhetoric
One of the 7 Liberal Arts.
The art of expressive speech or of discourse.
A skillful or artistic use of speech; skill in the effective use of speech.
Artificial elegance of language, or declamation without conviction or earnest feeling.
Exoteric VS Esoteric
Schools of Thought
Elementary, Middle, High, University, Religion, Spirituality
Exoteric is about understanding and identifying the world from the Outside.
Esoteric is about under/inner/overstanding the world and the universe from the Inside – Out.
The Power of Words
Words are very powerful things
Words have the Power to Create and to Destroy!
Words can be used to “bind” energy and to “loose” energy.
Words can be used to “bless” or “curse”.
Dictionary Symbols
- e.g. = for example
- i.e. = that means
- OE = Old English
- Gk= Greek
- OHG = Old High German
- ME = Middle English
- G = German
- Heb = Hebrew
- Jap = Japanese
- Ar = Arabic
- Scot = Scottish
- L = Latin
- NL = New Latin
- LL = Low Latin
- VL = Vulgar Latin
- F = French
*NOTE: The terms “African-American,” and “Black” are political misnomers, and are only used here as a generalization for those who are unfamiliar.
