A whale shark is not a whale, it’s a fish. Whale sharks (Rhincodon typus) is a very big fish, that’s why we call it a whale. Human ideas and imagination creates words
– That’s the essence of etymology.
Etymology is the development of words…and like other words “god” evolved. Without Old English, the word god has no meaning. That’s because the idea of the word “god” reside on the origin the word.
God started from the Sanskrit word “hub” or “emu”. Later this will become the root of the Gothic term “gheu”. So the word god came from India, then it traveled to the Eastern Germanic Europeans and then to England in about 450 to 1050 CE. On that time, Bede and Adlhelm were translating the Bible from Old Latin to Old English.
So deus was transformed to god, not because that was the Supreme Being’s name but because that was the language of the Anglo Saxons. Most Latin words were of Greco-Roman origin. The Latin deus came from the Greek word theos. So where did the word theos (θεός) comes from? It was derived from the Proto-Indo-European root dhēs- which means to call, or to invoke.
It was also said that the word theos were derived from two Greek verb theoro (I see) and theo (to run)…All seeing and all moving huh? Well that’s according to John Scuttus Eruigena.
But the name Zeus (The top god of Olympus) was derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *dyeu- which means “to shine,". The notion of deity was therefore linked to the notion of the bright sky. Well may I add that for Indo-Europeans, the society of the gods was conceived in the image of their own society as patriachal.
Even the Filipino word diyos or dios came from the Spanish deos which can again be trace back from the Greek word theos. Another Filipino word for god is Bathala. Bathala is from Sanskrit bhattara which means something honorific, something venerable, and worshipful.
So the word 'god" is actually nothing but a label which embodied a being that supposed to be Almighty. Without human ideas, god is nothing but a meaningless, hollow word.
I think the best meaning of the word god is the personification of human ideas of human qualities expanded beyond human limits.
– That’s the essence of etymology.
Etymology is the development of words…and like other words “god” evolved. Without Old English, the word god has no meaning. That’s because the idea of the word “god” reside on the origin the word.
God started from the Sanskrit word “hub” or “emu”. Later this will become the root of the Gothic term “gheu”. So the word god came from India, then it traveled to the Eastern Germanic Europeans and then to England in about 450 to 1050 CE. On that time, Bede and Adlhelm were translating the Bible from Old Latin to Old English.
So deus was transformed to god, not because that was the Supreme Being’s name but because that was the language of the Anglo Saxons. Most Latin words were of Greco-Roman origin. The Latin deus came from the Greek word theos. So where did the word theos (θεός) comes from? It was derived from the Proto-Indo-European root dhēs- which means to call, or to invoke.
It was also said that the word theos were derived from two Greek verb theoro (I see) and theo (to run)…All seeing and all moving huh? Well that’s according to John Scuttus Eruigena.
But the name Zeus (The top god of Olympus) was derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *dyeu- which means “to shine,". The notion of deity was therefore linked to the notion of the bright sky. Well may I add that for Indo-Europeans, the society of the gods was conceived in the image of their own society as patriachal.
Even the Filipino word diyos or dios came from the Spanish deos which can again be trace back from the Greek word theos. Another Filipino word for god is Bathala. Bathala is from Sanskrit bhattara which means something honorific, something venerable, and worshipful.
So the word 'god" is actually nothing but a label which embodied a being that supposed to be Almighty. Without human ideas, god is nothing but a meaningless, hollow word.
I think the best meaning of the word god is the personification of human ideas of human qualities expanded beyond human limits.
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