Moon Metaphor Mnemonic
The 245-entry semantic field of words carrying the M-N- sound — all tracing back to the Ancient Ukrainian word for moon (*méh₁nōt from *meh₁- “to measure”).
“You can hardly speak a meaningful sentence in modern English without using an ancient Ukrainian sourced meme related to its word for measure.”
The 245 M-N Words
| Moon | Mind | Mental | Monument | Monarch |
| Many | Monday | Mound | Meander | Mons |
| Manawydan | Manifold | Manager | Maintain | Month |
| Manu | Maing | Mainz | Mani | Manifest |
| Manifesto | Main | Le Mans | Monaco | Mane |
| Phenomenon | Menstruate | Minos | Menapii | Remain |
| Armenius | Money | Patrimony | Mainland | Nomen |
| Mean | Manipulate | Manufacture | Roman | Romania |
| Mons, Mountain (Welsh mynydd mountain represents a secondary formation from the same base, which many commentators connect with an Indo-European base expressing the concept of projection: see the note s.v. prominent adj.) [O.E.D.]) | Immanence | Prominent (The second element of the classical Latin verb belongs to a group of cognate classical Latin words referring to projection, jutting, and threatening: these include | mentum | chin (see |
| n. | ), | minae | threats (see | minacious |
| adj. | ), and | mōns | mount | n.. |
| 1 [O.E.D.]) | Manual | Mandate | Hermann/Herminones | Munificence |
| Muni | Menopause | Munitions | Summanus | Communion |
| Memory | Monaghan | Fermanagh | Promontory | Rules |
| Mon | Mena | Mana | Mina | Namu |
| Mount | Men | Moni | Mona | Mand |
| Munt | Mund | Mant | Meno | Mino |
| Mine | Mans | Stems/Rules: | Feminine | Amount |
| Monde | (French) | (wave; horse’s) (is cognate with Old Frisian mana, mona, Middle Dutch māne (chiefly in plural mānen; Dutch mane, chiefly in plural manen), Old High German mana (Middle High German and early modern German mane, man, German Mōn in the regional usage of the Wetterau; standard German Mähne is < Middle High German mene, plural), Old Icelandic mǫn (genitive manar), Swedish man, Danish man: all have the same sense and most, like the Old English word, are feminine. Ultimately < an Indo-European base with the sense ‘(nape of the) neck’, realized in e.g. Welsh mŵn neck, Early Irish muin neck, upper back; semantically closest are reflexes of forms with an extension in -k- , e.g. Welsh mwng mane, Early Irish mong mane, with which compare Icelandic makki the upper part of a horse’s neck, Danish manke mane (formerly, and in technical use, withers), Swedish manke withers. [O.E.D.]) | Armenia | Mani (Greece) |
| Measure | Mani (Manicheans) | Munster/Münster/Mönster | Fundamental Memes I | Fundamental Memes II |
| Founding Gods of Indo-European Cultures | Main Places | Religious/Manistic I | Religious/ Manistic II | © Stephen Douglas |
| Mnemonic | Mundane | Communication | Determine | Mone |
| Man | Mongolia | Economy | Ceremony | Hegemony |
| Payment | Premonition | Sentimental | Minister - Magister | Summoned |
| Admonitory | Dominion/Dominate | Roscommon | Nominative | (Moon in ancient Ukrainian) |
| Somain | Samhain | Monitor | Fundamental Units of key words | = in ancient Ukrainian (Proto-Indo-European (P.I.E.)) ⇐> |
| Examine | Diminish | (hand (French)) | Community / Common / Communism / Communion | Hand/Other |
| Manner(s) | Undermine | Mean, Semantic | (signify - something other than the signifier shining through, like the moon’s luminescence); ( | mentally |
| intend ( | mens rea | (intention in English / | criminal law: the | mana |
| in the thing (criminal act (actus reus))))); (Not nice (from same | meaning | source as ancient Iran’s Angra | Mainyu | (destructive |
| mind | /spirit))). | Mons, Mountain | (Welsh | mynydd |
| ): holy places across Indo-European zone, from earliest times. | Element / Elementary | Minimum | Municipal | Dimension |
| Germany | Mono | Commentary | Manannán | (pre-Christian Irish God. First referenced in European vernacular literature’s earliest surviving poem - the Voyage of Bran); |
| Mongan | , son of | Astronomy | Mag | (‘the plain of feats’ / ‘Otherworld’ in European vernacular literature’s first poem - The Voyage of Bran (6th/7th century)). |
| Eminent | (Sub) Liminal | Ahriman | (original conception of Zarathustra - replaces | Manuš, |
| Iran’s original | first | human | ). | (middle/average/position in any measurement system; “Regression to the |
| ” in data analytics also suggests at an equivalent mystery - there seems to be a “Regression to the | Moon-based Metaphor | ” in all of these words / | meanings | ); |
| Means | (subsistence, value sustenance, income, wealth, instrument, measure, device). | Manuscript | (wisdom script) | Mania |
| (“mother or grandmother of dead souls”) | Karman | (Sanskrit, “action”; in its inflected form “karma”) | Antinomianism | (that morality is unnecessary to salvation) |
| Paronomastic | (word play / pun) | Emain | Macha | (site of Ireland’s holiest / mythologically key |
| mound | - Old Irish | emon | , “twin” < ancient Ukrainian (P.I.E.) | *yemonos |
| ⇐> Cognate English language words provoked of the stems of ‘mo(o)n(th)’ / | (a)(e)(ea)(i)(o)(u)(ou) | (a)(e)(i)(o)(u)(d)(t)(k) / Cognate anagrams: | Name | Anim- |
| Luminous | Monk | Monastery | Monashka | is nun in Russian) |
| Manes | (“souls of the dead”). | Minister | (serves | Magister/Magi |
| Sentiments | (old word for emotions) | ātman | (the self / soul / eternal, unchanging essence of the person/identical to | brahman |
| Mantis | (μάντιϛ ‘fortune teller’). | Mynydd | (St. David’s, Dyffydd); | Monadh |
| (Scots Gaelic). | Monavia | (Isle of | Mir | measure |
| in modern Ukrainian; | Peace / | community | in Russian). | (Anglesey island, Wales) |
| Times Roman | (font, in which this is written). | Mañjuśrī | fundamental | bodhisattva of wisdom |
| dedicatee in Tibetan Buddhism (Highest Yoga Tantra)) - from 1st century CE | Irmin | (Woden/Odin’s byname). | Mana mountain | & Pass |
| (Uttarakhand, India) | Miru | (peace, cosmos in Slavonic). | Eumenides / Mnȇmosymȇ / Minerva / Monȇta | (Juno epithet). |
| *Mei | (“to exchange”); Mayate (Sanskrit ~ ‘he exchanges’). | Maniae | or | Manioiae |
| (ritualistic cakes in the shape of | humans | Numitor | (King and Romulus & Remus’s maternal grandfather). | Mantle |
| (sacred fire/cloak/identity). | Numa | (Romulus’s successor & Rome’s first law-giver) | (lion/horse/wave). | Manda |
| warriors (Section 54 of Hittite laws). | Semnones | (foundational | German | tribe). |
| Manipura | (belly button, through which a | human’s | lifeforce and conditions of existence passes). | Manavi |
| Mánu’s | twin sister). | (artificial burial and inauguration site of Indo-European | monarchs | from 4,500BCE-2,500BCE, portal to Otherworld, later sites of churches, citadels and forts). |
| Manius | Egerius of Aricia (key player in Rome’s foundational history). | Munus | (“gift, service performed, obligation, duty”). | Moon Shot |
| ” (as in a universal Covid vaccine or panacea). | Heremon | (son of Mil, a leader of one of the | main | Indo-European invasions of Ireland) |
| Manna | (soul, power, immanance, active principle, geist, frankensense). | (pit/possession | /munition | (Old Slavonic ~ change, exchange, contract). |
| Manuiscihr | (“seed” or “son” of | Manuš | in ancient Iranian) | Anima |
| (air, breath, life, soul, spirit); | animal | animate | Vohu | Manah |
| (Ancient Iran - Magical aspect of sovereignty function). | (sage, priest in Sanskrit); | Muinteoir | (teacher in Irish). | (my/ |
| mine | as in anything with my | immanent | in it) | (archaic English and |
| Meaning | (the | that shines through other sounds, words, memes). | Manusmṛti | (laws ascribed to India’s first man and law-giver |
| Mánu | . Basis of India’s legal system from around 500CE until after English colonisation) | Numina | (in | religion vaguely personified divine presences |
| immanen | t in the land-scape and tied to a particular place.); | Numinous | Anim | anim |
| name | in modern Irish)). | Mansion | (on the Boyne = euphemism for Ireland’s | monarchs’ |
| ceremonial centre.); | Manor | (Middle Irish text called ‘The Settling of the | of Tara’). | Buddha |
| Śākyamuni ( | enlightened sage of Śākya clan) | Mantic | (magic-related); | Romantic |
| Romance | (languages/love/enspell). | Maṇi | (jewel, a metaphor/signifier for entirety of Buddhist teachings) & cognate with | mane |
| (O.E.D.)). | Mannus | (mythological founder of | Germanic | culture) |
| Manistic | sacrifice (e.g. food and drink placed on a grave). | Magical power ( | wielded by Magi / Magister / Poet / Sovereign / Lawgiver, not their | minister |
| (past | mana remaining | in | (first sacrificing | monarch |
| man / | Lawgiver | in Vedic / pre-Sanskrit / pre-Hindi Indian religion) | ⇐> *med (‘ | to |
| measure, | to take appropriate | measures: | Greek health divinities | Mȇdos, Mȇdȇ |
| metis | (device); | Metis | (device - a metaphor is a lingusitic device) | ; Medium |
| (a measure and | Communicant | with the Otherworld); | and | Media (Meta) |
| Hogmanay | Permanent | Argument | Moan | Monstrate (re-, de-, …) |
| Mount (para-, -tain, a-,…) | Mine (exa-, deter-, | I. Eur. * | mon | - ‘sea, lake’ |
| Demon | Matrimony | Command | Manetho | (Egyption high priest 300BCE) |
| Ruminate | Administration | Emancipation | .-mination | Testimony |
| Termination / Terminal | Minor | Miniature | Semantically Cognate Anagrams | Namo |
| Amen | Omen | Immunity | Remains (after death) | ⇐→ Mana (power) ⇐> Memory ⇐> Mind ⇐→ Human ⇐> Illuminate (*Hal-*meh₁n-ṓt) |
| Moniker (name, an anagram of mane = cognate with Mana) | Illuminate/Illuminare/Lumen/Lumin (word and meaning in English is made up of two ancient pre-2,500BCE sounds: *hal- [ (~həl-) ‘(vb.) to light up, to beam forth, to shine, to brighten up, to radiate; (adj.)] and * meh₁n-ṓt [Moon]). | Reversion to the Moon Mnemonic: To Remind You In Real Time to Leave Positive Mana | Human (existent with mana shining through it; whose mana can be transferred into other existents through communication.); Manuṣya (Sanskrit, human - one of the six realms of rebirth). | ”Dies Dominica” “Day of Our Lord” / Dimanche / Seventh Day, from 300 CE in Rome |
| Brahman in India and Flamines (flamens) are the first estate - lawgiver/king/priests/poet upper class/caste (equivalent to Celtic Druides) who maintain magico-religious and legal order; Brāhmana (member of the priestly caste). Brahman is also a “mysterious and hidden power that was not only contained within the words of the sacred language, but also functioned to hold the universe together.” | sāmans is one of the four major mantra chants in third Vedic collection. | Mantra (“instruments of mind” / (Tibetan) “Compassion protecting migrators”) in syllable, word, or verse form) | Mandala (Mnemonic representation of the universe in Tibetan Buddhism). “Rig Veda is is arranged in ten books called maṇḍalas (circles).” | Bramaṇā (magic word formula) / Brāhmaṇas were attached to each of the four collections of the Vedas that explained the complex ritual system. Brāhmaṇa are theological and ritual commentary. |
| Hymn/Mnemonic/Yamnaya Culture | Mana (vitality / soul / spirit / geist / (miraculous) lifeforce / strength / active principle / authority / wealth, in a variety of languages and religions connected to the Indo-European world (including in the pacific region, which was in sustained contact with Indo-European India from earliest times)). See *ner-(t-) ‘vitality, mana, (miraculous) | |||
| life force, man, strength’ in York’s 1993 paper “Towards a Proto-Indo-European Vocabulary of the Sacred.” | barəsman (bundle of sacred rods held by Avestic priest). | Angra Mainyu (destructive mind/spirit) & Spəṇta Mainyu (holy/creative spirit/mentality) (Ancient Persia)). | Oṃ Maṇi Padme Hūṃ (Tibetan Buddhism’s most important mantra / teaching). |
How to Use This Mnemonic
Once you get your ear and eye in to the M-N- sound, it’s in practically every sentence. Each word above carries the semantic trace of Ancient Ukraine’s moon-based metaphorical signalling system. When you encounter these sounds in political speech, news, or conversation, ask: “Is Disinfolklore shining through this? Is the Mana luminescing through this story?”
Source: MN Sound · Reversion to the Moon Metaphor Mnemonic
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