First one is "colon" which is of unknown origin... Bah! However the colon in a language sense, the non body part one..
Means something like "limb" it also means like.. "bent" or a "tree branch".
Oh this is interesting. Looks like Christopher Columbus's name in Spanish, or part of it.. Is "Colon"..
"Columbus - his name is Latinized from his native Italian Cristoforo Colombo, in Spanish Christobal Colon."
So in a sense the US was named after a colon.. Heh.. But.. He wasn't actually the one who discovered the US and, it's debated whether the name had anything to do with him at all.
It's more likely in my mind that it was Vespucci or even deeper and it was Manly P Hall's explanation that is more accurate and that America basically means "plumed serpent".. Or.. Lucifer.
This is what the natives called onbe of their gods "Quetzalcoatl", who appears to be the same.. "Green man", "Osiris", etc etc that the occult seem to love.
Anyways.. Moving on.
I really wanted to see how "colonization" fit into all this.. Apparently it's a longer form of "colonize" which means..
"colonize (v.) - 1620s, "to settle with colonists," from stem of Latin colonus "tiller of the soil, farmer" (see colony); in sense "to make another place into a national dependency" without regard for settlement there by 1790s (such as in reference to French activity in Egypt or British work in India), and probably directly from colony."
So.. Very interesting again! We have the word originating AFTER Columbus discovered the America's and "colonized".. Hmmmm....
I wouldn't be surprised at all if the word "colonize" became MUCH more popularized by Columbus colonizing America..
Moving on now to.. Scepter.
First definition basically says it means.. "staff" or.. "royal staff". It also has a meaning "to lean on".
I really expected that to have the male genitalia somewhere in the definition but didn't find it.
However.. Fascinatingly enough.. I scrolled down a lil and saw "shaft" which is basically a synonym for staff in a sense and even in the definition suggests this is the case.
"shaft (n.1) Look up shaft at Dictionary.com
Old English sceaft "long, slender rod, staff, pole; spear-shaft; spear," from Proto-Germanic *skaftaz (source also of Old Norse skapt, Old Saxon skaft, Old High German scaft, German schaft, Dutch schacht, not found in Gothic), which some connect with a Germanic passive past participle of PIE root *(s)kep- "to cut, to scrape" (source of Old English scafan "to shave, scrape, polish") on notion of "tree branch stripped of its bark." But compare Latin scapus "shaft, stem, shank," Greek skeptron "a staff" (see scepter) which appear to be cognates.
Meaning "beam or ray" (of light, etc.) is attested from c. 1300. Sense of "an arrow" is from c. 1400; that of "a handle" from 1520s. Mechanical sense is from 1680s. Vulgar slang meaning "penis" first recorded 1719 on notion of "columnar part" (late 14c.); hence probably shaft (v.) and the related noun sense "act of unfair treatment" (1959), though some early sources insist this is from the notion of a "wound."
Now.. That's sort of what I expected to find and I wouldn't be surprised if basically all the words like.. "pole" "spear" etc etc have some kind of origination connected to the dick.
BUT.. What really surprised me here was.. This part.. "Meaning "beam or ray" (of light, etc.)"
I think this is connected to the Ark Of The Covenant, which has connections to the sun and rays or arcs of light.
I could entirely be stretching here and creating meanings where there were originally none which I'm sure has happened in the past with me trying to understand etymology..
But.. Can't help feel like there's something deeper her, and in light of my post the other day on seasons and semen, and other previous posts about how pencil means penis.
And.. There's quite a few more! Plus the word gash and wound is coming up a lot...
I dunno what it is, though it does appear a lot of our common words originally had much more sexual meanings to them.
And often today are still used in slang ways, or double entendres.
Also.. As weird as this sounds.. I'm getting a mental picture that war could be metamorphasized into sex almost, especially in ancient times.
Staff, pole, sword, etc all these things were phallus shaped, and when you impale someone, you're.. Wounding them, creating a hole.
Maybe when people in war who totally "dominate" someone in combat, really did.. "rape" them more than just in a play on words kind of way.
So.. This is weird, but.. I found out someone I know has used the word "gash" to refer to women, sorta like how some guys might say "pussy".
Or how some women refer to men as "dicks"..
Now gash, wound, cut.. These are all double meaning words which include the female genitalia.
When we go to war, we are cutting, and gashing and wounding... And.. I dunno.. It's fucking weird!
English is one of the most fucked up languages. Seriously. Well.. In the end I imagine many languages are similar..
Yet.. English is fucking strange and weird..
And it seems like most people just sort of accept the language without questioning it too much..
Though the more I get into etymology and learning about all this stuff, the more bizarre and in some ways even fascinating our language becomes.
It's very mysterious and odd, and..
There's a lot of weird things hidden, yet also not hidden and out in the open to find if you care enough to look.
K. I'm going to end this here. Cheers to the others on a similar path who are trying to understand the language we all use!
I think language is one of the most important and powerful things, the more we can know about it the better in my opinion. Peace.