JAN(UARY)
(Hey)GaiN or JaiN
(Hey)-Gimel-Noon
(Hey)-JANE הגן [GN à
JN]
ROOTS: JANUARY honors the
pagan Roman deity Janus. This vigilant deity was known as the guardian of
portals. Historically, a JANITOR was a doorkeeper.
Security, not maintenance. Latin ianus is a covered arcade or a door; ianua is an outer door. The sense here
is protection, not a piece of wood that swings on a hinge. J-N words would sound
stronger here had the ג
Gimel as Jimel not been lost. Yemenite Jews still pronounce the ancient Jimel.
The
word גן GaN
in the Garden of Eden (Genesis 2:8) does mean “garden.” But the ג-נ
Gimel-Noon core-root here is about protection, not
horticulture. Paradise Lost is about
losing divine protection, even more than losing a world where food just grew on
unplanted trees.
An Israeli גן GaN
or pre-school,
like a KINDERGARTEN, is not where toddlers are placed in the ground and
irrigated, but where they are protected. See “GUARD.”
גנן GaNaN or JaNaN is to cover over or defend (Isaiah
37:35); גנונה GiNOANaH is an awning; הגן HaGaiN or HaJaiN is to defend
or protect. הגנה
HaGaNaH is defense, protection. The pre-state Haganah (הגנה ) was the Jewish defense league of British
Mandate Palestine (1921–48), which grew into the Israel Defense Forces
(IDF) or צהל TSaHaL. Also built on the Gimel-Noon root of defense, מגן MaGeN is a shield (Genesis 15:1), as in
דוד מגן MaGeN DaVeeD, the shield (protector) of
David (Israel).
גנז GeyNeZ is the treasury
(Esther 3:9) , where a king or state protects, secures his wealth. גנוז GaNOOZ is hidden; גנזה G’NeeZah is a storehouse, recalling the financial district
and former royal treasury in Tokyo: the Ginza. Persian and
Georgian have terms similar to the Japanese.
Akkadian ganunu
means "store-room." Back to
our JAN- words, Sumerian gan is a gate. See more locked storage
below. [Schreyer Waclaw]
See
“JUNE” and “JIB.”
BRANCHES: Latin
Iuno is the goddess Juno, the guardian deity of women. To Latin by way of Edenic Gimel-Noon, this
is the source of the month and name JUNE.
The
Hebrew Gimel can be a G or J, just as Geoffry is alternatively Jeffrey. The
opposite number of a JANITOR (guardsman)
is the גנב
GaNaBH (thief - Exodus 21:37) who breaks into
doors - see "KNAVE." But a
thief who “houses” (slang) a stolen
object, is also concealing his loot.
גנז GaNaZ is to hide and secure, גנז GayNeZ are storage chests
(Ezekiel 27:24), and the word came to mean a king’s treasury (Esther 3:9).
גנזח
GiNZaKH is a treasury. Yin ni
is to conceal in Chinese; the ginza (treasury) is Tokyo's financial center. A better Chinese etymology is a reversal of zang X809 (storing
place. GNZ perfectly matches גניזה GiNeeYZaH storehouse. The Hindi “treasure” is qhazānā after an M132 metathesis. Persian ganza is a treasure. Russian kazna (M132 metathesis) is also a treasury. Georgian has khazina for their royal
treasury.
Money
is not the only thing we hide. A gnaza is a funeral in Moroccan Arabic. Burials
were often hidden affairs to keep away grave robbers.
כנס KaNa$ is to enter, gather or
collect (Ecclesiastes 3:5 and see “ECCLIASTIC.” Gathering people and treasure
are only guttural and fricative shifts apart. Precious worshipers gather in a בית
כנסת BeYT K’Ne$eT, synagogue…literally “house of
assembly.”
Israel’s
legislative house of assembly or parliament is the KNESSET.
For more martial, GN protection, Chinese gan X193 is a shield or defender. German Gönner means protector. A GUN may be used in defense, but Old Norse gunnr
(war) may have come from an earlier culture’s usage, given the Vikings proclivity to offense
rather than defense. More logically, their gun is a guttural-nasal variant of
CANON (from, קנה QaNeH, stalk or reed, the pipe-like source at
"CANE"). Gunnr, war, < M231 S-G, S-L of לחם LoaK[H]eM, to war (Exodus 14:14).
The
modern Department of Defense has replaced the less politically correct
Department of War.
Wayne
Simpson’s 2009 book on the historical legacy of Noah cites Morgan
Kavanaugh (19th century): “on his [Janus’] coins are often seen a
boat and a dove, with a chaplet of olive leaves, or an olive
branch." The Roman Janus seems to have developed from
non-Biblical lore about Noah. Similarly,
other ancient pagan deities derived from great men referenced in
Genesis, etc. (see “VULCAN”).
הגן HaGaiN appears in Chinese zhangang (to stand guard) and mengang (to
be on sentry duty). Qayyem is a Farsi (Iran) guardian, a GN wit S-G and
S-N. In Lithuanian ginti is to defend, protect, or
safeguard.
There
is no source known for GOON (a hired thug for
intimidation). The ג-נ Gimel-Noon root of protection is a person of
interest if the first goons were primarily bodyguards, or used for
Mafia-style “protection.”
Once
again, the two-letter core-root (here גנ GN) is efficient, while
the academic root (גנן GNN) is an illogical fiction. Three-letter structure is only mandatory for
grammar. Linguistics and lexicography is ruled by grammarians, and is bereft of
wordsmiths. One might imagine that grammarians are more scientific, and open to
seeing roots as chemistry and physics. But this may be too scarily deistic for
pedantic minds focused on the usage, not meaning, of words.