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Siting the Body
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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.

GK: soma = body; sema = corpse, the remains of individual incarnated existence; an effigy {see Plato, Cratylus: 400, where soma is defined through trope as body, grave, sign, and enclosure/prison of the soul); ptoma = ruin, corpse, carcas - from pipto/peto = to fall; L: corpus = body; cf. GK: karpos = wrist (a locus of turning the hand); and the Kabbalistic body as a place of knowing - a site of gnosis.