This piece is written as speech and as performance. In it, etymology is used liberally to prise open and multiply possibilities of interpretation.

These are intended to pollulate rather than cohere; and to resonate between rather than in the words themselves. These resonances have conceptual configurations - but they are also contours of techtonic probabilities, and are offered as such.

As word-games, they are in the manner of play and trope - and their lineage stretches from Vedic hermeneutics and nirukta; through Plato; to the hermeneutic methods adopted by Heidegger and Derrida for example.

Etymologies are drawn from Skeat, W. W. Etymological Dictionary of the English Language. Oxford, 1978; Strong, J. The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible. Riverside. Iowa Falls (undated); and D'Olivet, F. La Langue HŽbra•que RestituŽe. Delphica. L'Age D'Homme. Vevey, 1985.

Etymological roots are indicated by the sign ç.

Language groups are as follows: SKT: Sanscrt; E: Egyptian; HB: Hebrew; GK: Greek; L: Latin; AS: Anglo Saxon; ME: Middle English; OHG: Old High German; G: German; OFR: Old French; FR: French; IT: Italian; ICL: Icelandic; N: Nordic; SW: Swedish.