...Just The Facts:Angel (noun) About 1300 angel, aungel (with a hard g as in gem), replacing earlier angels, angles (with a soft g as in ghost), a fusion of Old English engel and Latin angelus. The latter Middle English angel, aungel are a fusion of Old English engel & Old French angele, angel, aungel, from Latin angelus, from Greek ángelos, originally meaning 'messenger'. The Greek word was a loan translation in the Septuagint of Hebrew mal'akh 'messenger, angel' & ángaros 'royal mounted courier'. The Old English engel was a borrowing of Latin angelus. Other Germanic languages made a similar borrowing of the Latin: Old Frisian angel, engel, Old Germanic angil, engil, Old Icelandic engill. Angelic (adjective) About 1385, borrowed from Old French angélique, from Latin angelicus, from Greek angelikós, from ángelos 'angel'. ...The original pronunciation was a hard g & shared understanding with the word angle. In about 1300AD the pronunciation of the word angel (hard g) changed to angel (a soft g). The meanings of messenger/royal mounted courier remained attached. Linguistic Enharmonics:Angle (noun) A space between 2 lines that meet. About 1380, 'corner', borrowed through Old French angle, or directly from Latin angulus 'corner'. Cognate with Greek ánkos 'bend', 'valley'. Angle (verb) Fishhook & Line. About 1450, verb use of angle (n. fishhook); developed from Old English angel (before 899); related to anga hook. Old English angel is cognate with Old High Germanic angul fishhook, ango hook, Old Icelandic ongull fishhook. Angles referred originally to the people of Angul, a region in Germany that was named after it's 'hook-like' shape. A Germanic tribe accompanied by Saxons, Jutes and Frisians that crossed into Britain in the 400's & 500's AD. ...In the Ethos of Music, Angels & Angles are analogous to each other. The Hierarchy of Archangels are a direct representation of the arc angles of light that Sir Isaac Newton defines in his book Principia. A Relative Minor:Ankle (noun) About 1350 ancle; probably before 1300 anclowe; before 1150 ancleowe; developed from Old English onclēow (before 800) cognate with Old High German anchal, enchil which means ankle (modern German enkel), Old Icelandic okkla (from proto ANKULAN) & Latin angulus meaning 'corner' and 'angle'. Old English had another form anclēow cognate with Old High Germanic anchlāo, apparently influenced by Proto-Germanic klāwa meaning claw, but eventually this was supplanted by the simpler ancle. ...When applied to the 12 key signatures & signs of the zodiac, Jacob (patriarch of the 12 tribes of Israel) takes on the meaning 'heel-catcher' which is descriptive to the development of human physiology. A connection of 2 systems; A ladder of knowledge represented (clearly) through the angles of angels that are eternally watching from the skies above; shining down from space, evolving our faculties & guiding us through time. Hidden behind a tactile mirror of the alphabetic letter G. *Dictionary entries reproduced from The Barnhart Concise Dictionary Of Etymology by Robert K. Barnhart. (HarperColins, 1995.)
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