"Words Under the Lens
Series"-#2: The latin word "FERRAMENTUM" sourced from Turkish.
Dear Friends,
The word #2 of the
"Words Under the Lens Series" is the Latin word FERRAMENTUM which
means "any instrument or tool made from iron", [ Cassell's Compact Latin-English and
English-latin dictionary, Cassel-London, 1962, p. 101].
FERRAMENTUM
deciphered letter-by-letter as "TEMURFENAM-R" where F is an
alphabetical up shift from letter D, that is, D/F shift has taken place, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caesar_cipher ,
thus, it is from restructured Turkish expression "TEMURDENEM"
(DEMIRDENIM) meaning "I am made of iron" which is the meaning
attributed to this so-called "Latin" word.
The word
"FERRA" which is the cut off front end of the word FERRAMENTUM and
similarly the Latin word "FERRUM" supposedly means "iron".
It must be noted that the meaning and the concept of "iron"
attributed to this word comes from the Turkish word "TEMUR" (TEMIR,
DEMIR) and not from "FERRA" which is a meaningless part of a longer
restructured word. What has taken place in this anagrammatizing process is that
the meaning of "TEMUR" (TEMIR, DEMIR) has been artificially shifted to
FERRA (FERRUM) giving the false impression that as if "FERRA" is the
root word of FERRAMENTUM which it is not!
Turkish suffix
-DEN, -TEN means "from" and in this case it means "made from,
made of" and the suffix -EM, -UM is the Turkish verbal suffix of the first
person singular.
Thus, all other
Latin words such as FERRARIA, FERRARIUS, FERRATUS, FERREUS, FERRUGIMEUS,
FERRUM, etc. having meanings realated to "iron" and all similar words
from other so-called "Indo-European" languages are all sourced from
this above given Turkish expression.
Türks of Central
Asia are well known for their "ERGENEKON" story in which an
"iron" mountain was melted away before they started to migrate to all
parts of the world. Turks have mined and worked the iron ore and smelted
it into all kinds of shapes for thousands of years. One of such iron instrument
was the "the plough share" which has been used in agriculture ever
since they invented the agricultural cultivation of the fields. The
Turkish steel used in the make up of the Turkish swords and other military
instruments were peerless among their rivals.
Thus the source of
this Latin word FERRAMENTUM is pure Turkish as given above contrary to all the
linguistic disinformation that has been perpetrated!
Best wishes to all,
Polat Kaya
29/11/2007