Orcus. Hades.
по-русски: https://new-etymology.livejournal.com/533127.html
in photo: Orcus mouth in the Gardens of Bomarzo.
orcinus orca (Latin), orque (Fr.), orc, ork, orca (Old Eng.) - a deadly sea monster, killer whale;
orco (Ital.) - a demon, monster;
ori (Fin., Izhora), orih, oreh (Karel., Veps.) - a stallion;
orikas, gen. orika (Est.), vȯ’ŗki (Livon.) - a hog, boar;
orc- (Piktish) - a young boar, pig;
orkn (Old Norse) - a seal: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orkney ;
Urkon - a mythical wild cow, which, according to legend, in an outspit of anger dug the Lake Sommen in Sweden with its hooves, after which the magician Somme locked it in a cave (the Swedes call it Urkons cave); now the cow rests in Urkons Cave on an oxhide: every Christmas she eats one hair, and when she eats all the hair, she will come out of the cave, and the end of the world will come;
orc, ogre (Eng.), hogre (Fr.) - a giant ogre, a devouring monster from fairy tales and folk legends (orc - in Beowulf); from here:
- the ORCS - a brutal race of goblins from Middle-Earth in Tolkien's novels;
- also ORCS, ОРКИ is now a name given by the Ukrainians to the Russian occupying forces and all Russians after Russia attacked Ukraine on 24/02/2022;
άγριος [ágrios] (Greek) - wild, ferocious; N.B. it is noteworthy that Homer's cannibalistic cyclops, were also called agrioi, e.g. Polyphemus the cyclops, (Odyssey, 9), as well as any giants: "Cyclops and the wild (agrioi) tribe of giants" (Odyssey, 7.206).
killer whales (orcas) attack and eat another whale: https://www.youtube.com/embed/qjpkqVps1UQ
killer whales (orcas) eat a surfer: https://www.youtube.com/embed/SGAJsg0nZTc
Compare also to:
ora (Est.) - a rod, pin, skewer; vȯrā (Livon.), ora (Izhora) - a metal stake, spear, rod; ora (Karel.), õra (Votic) - a drill; ár (Hung.), oarri (Lappish), ora (Fin.), oraińe (Veps.), uro, ura (Erzia, Mokshan) - a needle, a sharp point;
ork, gen. orgi, part. orki (Est.) - a bayonet, stake, pole.
See further: https://new-etymology.livejournal.com/9715.html .
with k-:
kargı (Turk.) - a bayonet, spear;
kargas (Pahlavi, Middle Persian), karges (Pamir-Iranian), carkas (Sogdian), [kahrkasa] (Avestan), cirgus (Ossetian) - an eagle, griffin, vulture;
karkea (Fin.), karkia (Izhora), kargei (Karel.) - hard, heavy, rough, uncouth, harsh (e.g., karge meri - a harsh sea);
харе [hare] (Nenets) - hummocky ice; compare to: Kara Sea;
harsh (Eng.), harske (Old Eng.), harsch (archaic Ger.), harsk (Norw., Dan.) - rude, severe;
hard (Eng.), hart (Ger.), hård (Sw., Dan.), harður (Icel.);
horror (Eng.), orrore (Ital.);
кыргый [kyrgyy] (Tatar) - wild (of animals and people), violent, unbridled, barbaric;
korku (Turk.), курку [kurku] (Tatar) - a fear, dread, fright, horror; қорқу [khorkhu] (Kazakh) - be afraid, fear;
γοργός [gorgós] (гр.) - terrible, horrifying (like a jellyfish Gorgon).
äräččy (Karelian) - wild, angry, evil (e.g., Kondie on äräččy, a omie poigie ei šyö - The bear is angry, but won't eat his own cubs);
ogar (Est.) - crazy, mad;
uggr (Old Norse) - fear;
angry (Eng.) - evil, wicked, furious;
angor (Latin) - an anxiety, fear.
See: https://new-etymology.livejournal.com/31645.html
The above names (orc, ork, orca) are considered to be derived from
ORCUS (лат.) - Hades, the Realm of the Dead and its god in Roman mythology
- allegedly 'of unknown origin': https://www.etymonline.com/word/orc
Compare, however, further to:
оr (Ingush) - a ditch, trench;
урьг, Iург [urg] (Ingush), ju’rg, 1уьрг (Chechen) - a hole, chink, breach;
URGAS (Est.) - a cave, hole, lair; den, slum, cloaca;
org, gen. oru (Est., Veps.), ORKO (Fin., Votic, Izhora, Karel.), üreg (Hung.) - a valley, hollowness, depression, cavity, emptiness;
oro (Oyrot.), or (Kazakh, Kyrgyz) - a pit, ditch, ravine;
aryk, арык (Uygur, Kazakh, Tatar, Crimean-Tatar, Bashkir.), ariq (Uzbek) - a ditch, irrigation canal;
ярык, jаrуk (Turk., Crimean-Tatar, Tatar), jaruk (Chagat.) - a gap, slot, slit, crack, crevice;
яруга [yaruga] (Ukrainian) - a ravine; etc.
See: https://anti-fasmer.livejournal.com/309771.html
Compare also to the name of Orkney Islands, at the extreme north of Britain - already mentioned by Pytheas in the 3rd century BC, as Cape ORCAS. As the northern edge of the land, the name cannot but be associated with ORCUS (Latin) - Hades, the Kingdom of the Dead.
Compare also to:
[ara] (Sanskrit) - an edge; jäärak (Est.) - a steep bank, shore; äär, ääre, äärt, äärde, ääris (Est.), ääri (Fin., Votic, Izhora) - an end, edge, outskirts; etc.
See: https://anti-fasmer.livejournal.com/309771.html
similarly
Hades (Eng.), άδης [adis] (Greek) - the Underworld, the Kingdom of the Dead; a place of punishment for sinners who experience torment and suffering in it); Ἅδης, Hades - the Ruler of the Underworld; N.B. again claimed to be 'of unknown origin': https://www.etymonline.com/word/hades .
Hades is clearly related to:
χάος [chaos] (Greek) - a place where the darkness of the womb world absorbs the light and there is no order; one of the incarnations of chaos itself is often the world ocean, primeval waters; in many ancient cosmogonic myths, the ocean and chaos are equivalent and inseparable from each other; χαίνω - 'I open up, open up; yawn'; χάσκω - 'gape, yawn' (of the mouth).
[haud, colloq. haus] حوض (Arabic) - a pool, pond, basin, reservoir.
haud, gen. haua, part. hauda (Est.) - a grave; a whirlpool (e.g., sügav haud - a deep grave; hauda panema - to put into the grave; ümberringi oli vaikne nagu hauas - there was silence all around, as in a grave; ta leidis endale meres külma haua - the sea became his cold grave; jõehaud - a river whirlpool);
ōda (Livon.) - a grave; also a nest;
auta (Votic), hauda (Izhora), haud (Ludic) - a hole, pit; a grave; a deep place in a river;
hauta (Fin.) - a grave; a deep place in a river or in a sea;
haudu (Katel.), haud (Veps.) - a hole, pit, hollow;
autio (Fin.) - alien, wild, deserted, abandoned;
адина [adina] (Yaroslavl and Kostroma dialects) - a low swampy place;
ад [ad] (Yaroslavl and Kostroma dialects) - a mouth;
eat (Eng.) - digest food, opening a mouth; etc.
See: https://anti-fasmer.livejournal.com/368544.html
in photo: Orcus mouth in the Gardens of Bomarzo.
orcinus orca (Latin), orque (Fr.), orc, ork, orca (Old Eng.) - a deadly sea monster, killer whale;
orco (Ital.) - a demon, monster;
ori (Fin., Izhora), orih, oreh (Karel., Veps.) - a stallion;
orikas, gen. orika (Est.), vȯ’ŗki (Livon.) - a hog, boar;
orc- (Piktish) - a young boar, pig;
orkn (Old Norse) - a seal: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orkney ;
Urkon - a mythical wild cow, which, according to legend, in an outspit of anger dug the Lake Sommen in Sweden with its hooves, after which the magician Somme locked it in a cave (the Swedes call it Urkons cave); now the cow rests in Urkons Cave on an oxhide: every Christmas she eats one hair, and when she eats all the hair, she will come out of the cave, and the end of the world will come;
orc, ogre (Eng.), hogre (Fr.) - a giant ogre, a devouring monster from fairy tales and folk legends (orc - in Beowulf); from here:
- the ORCS - a brutal race of goblins from Middle-Earth in Tolkien's novels;
- also ORCS, ОРКИ is now a name given by the Ukrainians to the Russian occupying forces and all Russians after Russia attacked Ukraine on 24/02/2022;
άγριος [ágrios] (Greek) - wild, ferocious; N.B. it is noteworthy that Homer's cannibalistic cyclops, were also called agrioi, e.g. Polyphemus the cyclops, (Odyssey, 9), as well as any giants: "Cyclops and the wild (agrioi) tribe of giants" (Odyssey, 7.206).
Click to viewkiller whales (orcas) attack and eat another whale: https://www.youtube.com/embed/qjpkqVps1UQ
killer whales (orcas) eat a surfer: https://www.youtube.com/embed/SGAJsg0nZTc
Compare also to:
ora (Est.) - a rod, pin, skewer; vȯrā (Livon.), ora (Izhora) - a metal stake, spear, rod; ora (Karel.), õra (Votic) - a drill; ár (Hung.), oarri (Lappish), ora (Fin.), oraińe (Veps.), uro, ura (Erzia, Mokshan) - a needle, a sharp point;
ork, gen. orgi, part. orki (Est.) - a bayonet, stake, pole.
See further: https://new-etymology.livejournal.com/9715.html .
with k-:
kargı (Turk.) - a bayonet, spear;
kargas (Pahlavi, Middle Persian), karges (Pamir-Iranian), carkas (Sogdian), [kahrkasa] (Avestan), cirgus (Ossetian) - an eagle, griffin, vulture;
karkea (Fin.), karkia (Izhora), kargei (Karel.) - hard, heavy, rough, uncouth, harsh (e.g., karge meri - a harsh sea);
харе [hare] (Nenets) - hummocky ice; compare to: Kara Sea;
harsh (Eng.), harske (Old Eng.), harsch (archaic Ger.), harsk (Norw., Dan.) - rude, severe;
hard (Eng.), hart (Ger.), hård (Sw., Dan.), harður (Icel.);
horror (Eng.), orrore (Ital.);
кыргый [kyrgyy] (Tatar) - wild (of animals and people), violent, unbridled, barbaric;
korku (Turk.), курку [kurku] (Tatar) - a fear, dread, fright, horror; қорқу [khorkhu] (Kazakh) - be afraid, fear;
γοργός [gorgós] (гр.) - terrible, horrifying (like a jellyfish Gorgon).
äräččy (Karelian) - wild, angry, evil (e.g., Kondie on äräččy, a omie poigie ei šyö - The bear is angry, but won't eat his own cubs);
ogar (Est.) - crazy, mad;
uggr (Old Norse) - fear;
angry (Eng.) - evil, wicked, furious;
angor (Latin) - an anxiety, fear.
See: https://new-etymology.livejournal.com/31645.html
The above names (orc, ork, orca) are considered to be derived from
ORCUS (лат.) - Hades, the Realm of the Dead and its god in Roman mythology
- allegedly 'of unknown origin': https://www.etymonline.com/word/orc
Compare, however, further to:
оr (Ingush) - a ditch, trench;
урьг, Iург [urg] (Ingush), ju’rg, 1уьрг (Chechen) - a hole, chink, breach;
URGAS (Est.) - a cave, hole, lair; den, slum, cloaca;
org, gen. oru (Est., Veps.), ORKO (Fin., Votic, Izhora, Karel.), üreg (Hung.) - a valley, hollowness, depression, cavity, emptiness;
oro (Oyrot.), or (Kazakh, Kyrgyz) - a pit, ditch, ravine;
aryk, арык (Uygur, Kazakh, Tatar, Crimean-Tatar, Bashkir.), ariq (Uzbek) - a ditch, irrigation canal;
ярык, jаrуk (Turk., Crimean-Tatar, Tatar), jaruk (Chagat.) - a gap, slot, slit, crack, crevice;
яруга [yaruga] (Ukrainian) - a ravine; etc.
See: https://anti-fasmer.livejournal.com/309771.html
Compare also to the name of Orkney Islands, at the extreme north of Britain - already mentioned by Pytheas in the 3rd century BC, as Cape ORCAS. As the northern edge of the land, the name cannot but be associated with ORCUS (Latin) - Hades, the Kingdom of the Dead.
Compare also to:
[ara] (Sanskrit) - an edge; jäärak (Est.) - a steep bank, shore; äär, ääre, äärt, äärde, ääris (Est.), ääri (Fin., Votic, Izhora) - an end, edge, outskirts; etc.
See: https://anti-fasmer.livejournal.com/309771.html
similarly
Hades (Eng.), άδης [adis] (Greek) - the Underworld, the Kingdom of the Dead; a place of punishment for sinners who experience torment and suffering in it); Ἅδης, Hades - the Ruler of the Underworld; N.B. again claimed to be 'of unknown origin': https://www.etymonline.com/word/hades .
Hades is clearly related to:
χάος [chaos] (Greek) - a place where the darkness of the womb world absorbs the light and there is no order; one of the incarnations of chaos itself is often the world ocean, primeval waters; in many ancient cosmogonic myths, the ocean and chaos are equivalent and inseparable from each other; χαίνω - 'I open up, open up; yawn'; χάσκω - 'gape, yawn' (of the mouth).
[haud, colloq. haus] حوض (Arabic) - a pool, pond, basin, reservoir.
haud, gen. haua, part. hauda (Est.) - a grave; a whirlpool (e.g., sügav haud - a deep grave; hauda panema - to put into the grave; ümberringi oli vaikne nagu hauas - there was silence all around, as in a grave; ta leidis endale meres külma haua - the sea became his cold grave; jõehaud - a river whirlpool);
ōda (Livon.) - a grave; also a nest;
auta (Votic), hauda (Izhora), haud (Ludic) - a hole, pit; a grave; a deep place in a river;
hauta (Fin.) - a grave; a deep place in a river or in a sea;
haudu (Katel.), haud (Veps.) - a hole, pit, hollow;
autio (Fin.) - alien, wild, deserted, abandoned;
адина [adina] (Yaroslavl and Kostroma dialects) - a low swampy place;
ад [ad] (Yaroslavl and Kostroma dialects) - a mouth;
eat (Eng.) - digest food, opening a mouth; etc.
See: https://anti-fasmer.livejournal.com/368544.html