LIST OF ANCIENT WORDS
Paleo-Philologists have accumulated a list of ultra-conserved
words, projecting an ancestral language, extended well into 15,000 years of usage.
Certain core
concepts have been with us, always: Resonant, blunt, unadorned, concrete,
descriptive. And see if you are surprised by any of them, especially the last one.
I,
not,
That,
We,
To give,
Who,
This,
What,
Man/male,
Ye /you
old,
mother,
To hear,
Hand,
Fire,
to pull,
Black,
To flow,
Bark,
Ashes,
To spit,
Worm - surprised? Clue that we used to eat them.
Grubs
are more delicious than beetles
Which
are abundant and everywhere.
EXERCISE:
Write poem,
using these 23 words.
EXAMPLE:
Who gives not to old
Mother,
That hears the hand
of fire
Pulled black flowing
from the flame
That men spit into?
