WIND Etymology: Air in Motion, Old English wind wind, from Proto-Germanic *windaz (cognates: Old Saxon, Old Frisian, Middle Dutch, Dutch wind, Old Norse Vindr, Old High German wind, German Wind, Gothic Winds from PIE *we-nt-o- blowing, from root *we- to blow (cognates: Sanskrit va-, Greek aemi-, Gothic waian, Old English wawan, Old High German wajan, German wehen, Old Slavonic Vejati to blow; Sanskrit Vatah, Avestan Vata-, Hittite Huwantis, Latin Ventus, Old Slavonic Vetru, Lithuanian Vejas wind; Lithuanian Vetra tempest, storm; Old Irish feth air; Welsh gwynt, Breton gwent wind) Latin ventus. To make sound by blowing wind through, from the 1580. wind (v.1) - move by turning and twisting, Old English windan to turn, twist, plait, curl, brandish, swing (class III strong verb; past tense wand, past participle wunden), from Proto-Germanic *windan to wind (cognates: Old Saxon windan, Old Norse vinda, Old Frisian winda, Dutch winden, Old High German wintan, German winden, Gothic windan to wind), from PIE *wendh- to turn, wind, weave (cognates: Latin viere twist, plait, weave, vincire bind; Lithuanian vyti twist, wind). St. John the Baptists Day is known as Ivan Kupala (Summer Solstice). Noc Kupala is the Night festivities which is more pagan than the religious Ivan Kupala. Russian: Иван-Купала; Belarusian: Купалле; Ukrainian: Іван Купала; Polish: Noc Kupały, is celebrated in Ukraine, Belarus and Russia currently on the night of 6/7 July in the Gregorian or New Style calendar, which is 23/24 June in the Julian or Old Style calendar still used by many Orthodox Churches. In Poland (Mazowsze and Podlasie) it is celebrated on the night of 23/24 June. Calendar-wise, it is opposite to the Winter Solstices Koliada. The celebration relates to the Summer Solstice when nights of Pagan rituals. Folklorists and Mythology scholars share that this is originally Kupala; the Pagan Fertility rite later accepted by the Christians. Kupala is related to a word derived from the Slavic word for bathing, which is cognate with water. The latter is reinterpreted of the full immersion in water. However, the traditiosn of Kupala predates any religion, due to the popularity of the pagan celebration, with time it was simply accepted and reestablished as one of the native Christian traditions intertwined with local folklore. The holiday is still enthusiastically celebrated by the younger people of Eastern Europe. The night preceding the holiday (Tvorila night) is considered the night for good humor mischief but before this it was a womans sacred ritual night of the Night Magic of Nature. Folklore and Slavic beliefs are the ancient Kupala rites, are connected with the role of Clouds, Water, Rain, Storms, Lightning in relation to the Goddesses Fertility and rituals of her sacred purifications. There is an ancient Kupala belief that the eve of Ivan Kupala is the only time of the year when ferns bloom. Prosperity, luck, discernment and power would befall on whoever finds a fern flower. Therefore, on that night, village folk would roam through the forests in search of magical herbs and especially the elusive fern flower. The Vesta. It is to be noted, however, that ferns are not angiosperms (flowering plants), and instead reproduce by spores; they cannot flower. ********************* GAMUT Etymology - In 1520 it originally meant: Lowest Note in the Medieval Musical Scale, in the system of notation devised by Guido dArezzo, contraction of Medieval Latin gamma ut, from gamma, the Greek letter, indicating a note below A, + ut, the low note on the six-note musical scale that took names from corresponding syllables in a Latin hymn for St. John the Baptists Day. Ut queant laxis resonare fibris Mira gestorum famuli tuorum Ut queant laxis resonare fibris Mira gestorum famuli tuorum Solve polluti labii reatum Solve polluti labii reatum To be able to sing In order that they may sing a wonderful acts of thy servants Wonderful feats thy servants Unclean solve spotted lips Unclean solve spotted lips Gamut came to be used for the whole musical scale; the figurative sense of entire scale or range of anything is first recorded 1620s. When the modern octave scale was set early 16th century, si was added, changed to ti in Britain and U.S. to keep the syllables as different from each other as possible. Ut later was replaced by more sonorous do (n.). *********** NOTE: This video is for Dream Educational Purposes only: Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for fair use for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. Non-profit, educational or personal use tips the balance in favor of fair use .This video is for Dream Educational Purposes only: Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for fair use for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. Non-profit, educational or personal use tips the balance in favor of fair use .This video is for Dream Educational Purposes only: Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for fair use for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. Non-profit, educational or personal use tips the balance in favor of fair use .
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