Words under the lens: Greek Numeral names No.12 - Greek words related to number "ten"

12.    Greek words related to number "ten":

Greek word DEKA means "ten", and DEKATOS (DEKATON) means "tenth", [Divry's Modern English-Greek, Greek-English Dictionary, 1988, p. 762].

Turkish cardinal numeral for "ten" is 
"ON" and for ordinal numeral "tenth" is "ONUNCU". 

In order to have a better understanding of the term DEKA meaning "ten", we should inspect some other"DEKA" related Greek words.

a)    The Greek word DEKADRAKHMON means "a bill of ten drachmas", [Divry's, p. 468]. The Greek word DEKADRAKHMON, rearranged as "DEKA-ON-DRAKHM", is the Hellenized form of the Turkish expression 
"ON DRAHMA" meaning "ten drachmas" [see footnote 1] - without the need forDEKA. Thus, from the point of view of the Turkish source-text "ON DRAHMA", the term DEKA is a linguistic wrapping needed only to make it appear as DEKADRAKHMON and to mean "ten drachmas" in Greek. Here, we note that the meaning of the Turkish numeral ON meaning "ten" has been assigned to this Greek term DEKA.

b)    The Greek word DEKAGRAMMON, means "decagram", that is, "ten grams" [Divry's, p. 468].The Greek word DEKAGRAMMON, rearranged letter-by-letter as "DEKA-ON-GRAMM", is the altered, restructured and Hellenized form of the Turkish expression 
"ON GRAMaM" meaning "I am ten gram" - again without any need for the term DEKA.  Clearly, the term DEKA is an addition to make the Turkish source text "ON GRAMAM" to appear as the Greek word DEKAGRAMMON and also to mean "ten grams" in Greek.  Again we note that the meaning of the Turkish numeral ON meaning "ten" has been assigned to this Greek term DEKA.

c)     The Greek word DEKAEDRON means "decahedron", [Divry's, p. 468].  Decahedron is defined as "a solid figure with ten plane faces" 

The Greek word DEKAEDRON, rearranged letter-by-letter as "ON-KEDARDE" or "OD-KENARDE", is the altered, restructured and Hellenized form of the Turkish expression "ON KENARDI" meaning "it is ten sides", "it is with ten faces".  One of the N's in the Turkish source text has been replaced with letter D in the Greek word DEKAEDRON. Thus, the source of this Greek word is also from Turkish. 

The Turkish word 
ON means "ten", KENAR means "side, face" , KENARDI means "it is side, it is face" .  

In this Greek anagram from Turkish, we see that the term DEKA is an artificial word which gets its meaning of ten from Turkish cardinal numeral 
ON. Additionally, the EDRON part of the Greek word DEKAEDRON is the anagrammatized and Hellenized form of the Turkish word KENAR and it also gets its meaning from this Turkish word. Therefore neither of the Greek words "DEKA" or "EDRON" are genuine or authentic.

d)    The word DEKAGWNON, means "decagon", [Divry's, p. 468], that is, "a plane figure with ten straight sides and angles", where the bogus letter W is YU combination in this case.  The Greek word DEKAGWNON with W = YU replacement becomes DEKAGYUNON
.  Word DEKAGYUNON, rearranged as "ON-YANDE-U-KG", is the Hellenized form of the Turkish expression "ON YANDI O" meaning "it is ten sides", or alternatively, "ON-AGEDY-U-KN", is the Hellenized form of the Turkish expression "ON AÇIDI O" meaning "it is ten angles".  Thus, the Greek word DEKAGWNON is a figure having "ten sides and ten angles" but made up from Turkish expressions defining the concept of "decagon". 

Turkish words 
ON meaning "ten"YAN meaning "side", and AÇIDI meaning "it is angle" have been anagrammatized into this Greek word DEKAGWNON Again, the Greek term DEKA used in this Greek word gets its meaning from the Turkish cardinal numeral "ON". 

Here, it is important also to mention the Greek words "GWNIA" and "AGKISTREUW" that mean "angle", [Divry's, p. 25 and p. 395]. The Greek word AGKISTREUW, where W is UU combination in this case, rearranged as  "KUSE-U-AGITUR", is the anagrammatized and Hellenized form of the Turkish expression 
"KÖŞE Ve AÇIDUR" meaning "it is corner and angle". Of course, angles are found where the corners are present.  This verifies the correctness of the Turkish term AÇI that we found in above decipherment. Turkish word AÇI means "angle" and KÖŞE means "corner". 

e)    In order to have a better understanding of the term DEKATE (DEKATOS, DEKATON) meaning "tenth", we should inspect some other DEKATE related Greek words.


The Greek word DEKATEMORION means "the tenth part", [Divry's, p. 468].  The Greek word MORION means "part; partical, molecule", [Divry's, p. 595].  Thus, this makes the Greek DEKATE also to mean "tenth".


The word DEKATEMORION, rearranged letter-by-letter as "ADE-ONOMKETIR", is the altered, restructured and Hellenized form of the Turkish expression 
"ADI-ONUMCUTIR" (ADI-ONUNCUTIR) meaning "its name is 'tenth'".  Thus, the Turkish numeral ON meaning "ten" and ONUNCU (ONUMCU) meaning "tenth" are built into this Greek word DEKATEMORION. With this, the term DEKATE (DEKATOS, DEKATON) gets its meaning from the meaning assigned to Turkish ordinal numeral name ONUNCU (ONUMCU).  The Greek letter K is a replacement for Latin letter C which appears in the Turkish ordinal numeral ONUNCU (ONUMCU).  As seen, this is a process of cross-assigning the meanings of Turkish numeral names to parts of newly fabricated words that are falsely claimed as belonging to "Greek". 

f)    Additionally, the word DEKATEMORION, meaning "the tenth part", rearranged letter-by-letter as    "ONA-KETMEDIR-O", is the altered, restructured and Hellenized form of the Turkish expression "ONA-KESMEDIR-O" meaning "it is cutting into ten". Of course, if an object, say a circle, is cut into ten equal parts, then, each cut piece is one-of-ten parts, that is, a "tenth part" of the whole unit. In this anagram, the letter S in the Turkish source text has been transformed into T. In this process again we note that the Greek word DEKA, meaning "ten", gets its meaning from the meaning assigned to the Turkish word "ON".  Thus, the Greek word DEKA is not an authentic word, but rather, a concoction from Turkish expression "ONA-KESMEDIR-O" 

Turkish word 
ON means "ten", ONA means "into ten", KES means "cut", KESME means "cutting", KESMEDIR means "is cutting", O means "it". 

We will have another view regarding the term DEKA meaning "ten" in the next article related to number "eleven" 

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Footnote 1:  In a book called "Ancient Greek Jobs" by Haydn Middleton, (Heinemann Library, 2002, p. 46 - 47), it is stated that  "Greek "drachma" was silver coin and worth six obols.  And "obol" was small Greek silver coin - six to a drachma".

Interestingly, when the word DRACHMAS, rearranged as "CMASHDAR" and read as in Turkish, we find that it is the anagrammatized and Hellenized form of the Turkish word "GÜMÜŞDIR" meaning "it is silver".  Turkish word GÜMÜŞ means "silver". 

Similarly, when the word OBOL is rearranged as "BOL O" and read as in Turkish, we find that it is the anagrammatized and Hellenized form of the Turkish word 
"PUL O" (PARA O) meaning "it is money, it is small coin".  Turkish word PUL means "money; small coin; stamp; round disk; fish scale".  So, these words GÜMÜŞ and PUL are very ancient words of Turkish contrary to the denials that Turkish is not an ancient World language!

 
Polat Kaya

30/05/2011