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How Word Meaning Emerges from

the SYMBOLISM of the ALPHABET

OUT

O, the full MOON

U, the crescent MOON

T - Light reflected in water.

O, full eclipse MOON

U, crescent corona

    of emerging sun

+  starburst, termination of 

    eclipse. The sun comes

    out.

 

O, the full MOON

U, the crescent MOON

T  GreaT, TOP, thick, thin

     heighT of the Tide: tTtL

O - open mouth

U -  tongue sticking out

T -   tongue, talk

Etymology of OUT:

Proto-Indo-European 

*UD = up, out, away

U - the tongue comes out of 

D - the Devouring mouth

O  - water

U  -  up, out

T  -  Terre, the Earth

      a spring of water

      flows out 

O  - water

U  -  pours down, out of

T  -  ThunDerclouD

       D - Drum, clouD

O  - water

U  -  down and up again,

       turning

T  -  terre, the earth

     

water falls from the sky

soaks into the earth

and returns to the sky

O U T - each letter

signifies rotation and turning

T + axis of the wheel

O - the wheel

U - turn

+  axis of turning, rotation

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