Etymology of God

[Anonymous No.19146573]

>From Middle English god, from Old English god (“deity”), originally neuter, then changed to masculine to reflect the change in religion to Christianity, from Proto-West Germanic *god n, from Proto-Germanic *gudą, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰutós (“invoked (one)”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰewH- (“to call, to invoke”) or *ǵʰew- (“to pour”)

'God' is just a particularly mentally powerful called or invoked word? Naming the god in question in practice diminishes its verbal power as an idol (Yahweh, Jehovah, Desert Demon)? Blasphemy is frowned upon because it weakens the calling, the invocation?

[Anonymous No.19146586]

>>19146573
No, you're confusing God and gods.

[Anonymous No.19146593]

[Anonymous No.19146604]

>>19146586
>God
Transcendant supreme being?

[Anonymous No.19146606]

Deus, deiwos~diewos, 'bright'

[Anonymous No.19146614]

>>19146573
Your confusion is largely due to your misunderstanding of the differences between the word 'god' when used as a nomenclature and the word 'god' when used as a signifier for a single specific entity. In monotheistic languages like Christianity or Islam, the concept of 'god' is conflated and actually identical with the one (and only one) being signified by that word. In polytheistic religions however, the term 'god' largely functions as a nomenclature, encompassing all the godly humans, creatures or entitites that people believe in. The gods there have specific names like the Greek god Zeus, the Roman god 'Jupiter', the Germanic god 'Odin' etc.

>Blasphemy is frowned upon because it weakens the calling, the invocation?

The Latin word for god is Deus. Related to this is Sanskrit Devah. Both ultimately come from a Proto-Indo-European noun deiwos, formed from the stem dew- which means 'sky, heaven'. So the Latin and Sanskrit words literally mean 'someone from or in the sky'.
The Greek term 'theos' goes back to a very old unattested form 'thesos' from Proto-Indo-European 'dhes-os' which literally means 'that which is put or set'.

[Anonymous No.19146627]

>>19146573
From wikipedia:
>The Proto-Germanic meaning of *ǥuđán and its etymology is uncertain. It is generally agreed that it derives from a Proto-Indo-European neuter passive perfect participle *ǵʰu-tó-m. This form within (late) Proto-Indo-European itself was possibly ambiguous, and thought to derive from a root *ǵʰeu̯- "to pour, libate" (the idea survives in the Dutch word, 'Giet', meaning, to pour) (Sanskrit huta, see hotṛ), or from a root *ǵʰau̯- (*ǵʰeu̯h2-) "to call, to invoke" (Sanskrit hūta). Sanskrit hutá = "having been sacrificed", from the verb root hu = "sacrifice", but a slight shift in translation gives the meaning "one to whom sacrifices are made."

[Anonymous No.19146628]

>>19146573
In my opinion, blasphemy comes from mocking The One Who gave you existence and life, your Father, but He's very wise so it'll give you the challenge that makes you humble again

[Anonymous No.19146657]

>>19146628
You circumcized?

[Anonymous No.19146683]

>>19146573
Taking his name in vain means not according full seriousness to what is most serious, it can be likened to saying a falsehood

[Anonymous No.19146949]

>>19146657
>>>/soc/30546600

[Anonymous No.19146975]

>>19146949
>"The depth which the Spirit brings forth from within–but only as far as its picture-thinking consciousness where it lets it remain–and the ignorance of this consciousness about what it really is saying, are the same conjunction of the high and the low which, in the living being, Nature naively expresses when it combines the organ of its highest fulfillment, the organ of generation, with the organ of urination."

[Anonymous No.19147392]

>>19146614
This. OP is a complete idiot

[Anonymous No.19147791]

>>19146614
Do you have any insight on the etymological roots of the words "asura" and its related corruptions? I see it pop up a lot in different cultures, like the Iranian festival, the name of Ahura Mazda from Zoroastrianism, the group of malevolent entities in Hinduism and Buddhism, and apparently been linked to the deity Anshar/Ashur, whom Assyria is named after.
Etymology linguistics fascinates me, especially in the context of religions, though I'm not schooled in linguistics at all.