Saturday, November 1, 2025

What is common between the words Liturgy and Syndrome?

Liturgy:


Lei: flow or go forth, lead 

https://www.etymonline.com/word/littoral

Leitos: Greek used for flow of people

from laos "people;" compare leiton "public hall," leite "priestess;" see lay (adj.))

Do we have that well "laid out" or spread out now?

-ourgos "that works," from ergon "work" (from PIE root *werg- "to do"). 


Liturgy is to spread out your work by flowing together with others? 


Sanskrit: Lestu means clod of Earth aka clay! 


The word clergy has similar undertones where interestingly the same root word was perhaps used to differentiate "laity" who inherited "land" or Earth from those who inherited "the divine"! 



Ourgos from:


Ergo from PIE reg from Sanskrit Raja 


Sanskrit: Varga meaning square and extended to mean groups


So etymologically liturgy may mean "spread out to groups" and in a human context "spread out to groups of people"!

Now check out our past published etymology on syndrome here: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40674544/.and detailed here: https://youtu.be/h-idYabkvQE?si=ZUhqefZr2DZkhgaw and I share some full text around it again below:

"Syndrome is a word from mid 16th century: modern Latin, which is in turn from Greek sundromē, from sun- ‘together’ + dramein ‘to run or flow’, which appears to be further derived from Sanskrit 'sam' and "drroom" that have similar meaning as the Greek, meaning "together we flow!" (Ref 4 https://www.etymonline.com/word/syndrome). In Sanskrit "drroom" or "druma" also means a tree (ref 5: https://www.wisdomlib.org/definition/druma)
suggesting a flow of the river where it's tributaries form branches draining different locations before it joins the mainstream/stem!
In different places in the paper we try to use a visual imagery, we used earlier, of a river where our 'together we flow' is symbolized in different elements of a running rivulet."



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