User talk:Roger18

Etymology: left-right-etymology. This is a crazy phenomenon in language and in etymology I discovered about 20 years ago.It seems crazy, but it is no joke. It began when I discovered that the Latin word for form is form-a, and the Greek word having the same meaning is morf-ae. The endings (Latin -a and Greek -ae) can be neglected here. The Latin word has the consonants f-r-m, and the Greek word has m-r-f, the same consonants if you read the Greek consonants backwards or viceversa. When I discovered this I regarded this as a mere coincidence without any importance. When I found the second word-pair of this kind, I wasn't worried. But then I discovered the third word-pair and I began to wonder, if it could be possible that this left-right thing could be a real system in etymology. An idea that was not absolutely foreign to me as I had found other left-right-phenomena in languages and writing systems. Well, I kept looking for such curious word-pairs and over the years (about 20 years) I found quite a lot of them concerning two neighbouring languages such as Latin and Greek or German and English and so on, there are such word-pairs even in one single language. All in all I think I've found about 250 such word-pairs. Well, in the meantime I could write a booklet about this phenomenon, but here I don't want to go into details. My question: Are there somewhere in the world people who also have discovered this curious phenomenon or who are interested in this kind of left-right-thing? Just to give you another exemple: German Loch (l-o-.h), English hole (h-o-l). For simplification I dropped the c in German Loch. If you are interested you can contact me: email ruediger.zirkel@web.de--Roger18 (talk) 17:56, 18 September 2008 (UTC)