ECTOPLASM K[H]OOTS + Pe$eL Het-Vav-Tsadi + Pey-Samekh-Lamed
KHOOTS_ חוץ __[KH-OO-T(S) à CT] + PES-elle פסל [PSL à PLS]
ROOTS: a) ECTO- is a combining form meaning “outside” from Greek ekto- and ektόs (outside).
The pretend IE “root” is
eghs or
eks (out). The many EX- words are seen at
EXIT.
חוץ K[H]OOTS means the outside (Genesis 24:31) or exterior.
b) The IE “scholars” want Greek
plassein, to mold
, to mean “spreading out” so they can include many PL words (see below) together with words like “field” and “plane” in another absurdly vague and inclusive “root” … this one called
pelƏ-2 (flat; to spread). PL “flat” words are at
PLAZA.
Although Biblical Hebrew has a separate word for “molding” graven images, there is no reason why the pre-Greeks could not “recall” the common “graven image” word פסל Pe$eL – even though the verb implies sculpting or carving, not pouring a molten liquid into a mold. After all, they also metathesized PSL to PLS after the apparent neuro-linguistic Big Bang of language diversity at Shinar/Sumer/”Babel.”
BRANCHES: a) ECTO- occurs in scientific and technical words like
ECTODERM or
ECTOPLASM (the OUTER part of a cell’s cytoplasm). See CYTO- at
CADDY or
KIT. Best known, sadly, is the combining form -
ECTOMY for surgically
EXCISING or taking OUT a body part. May the HYSTER
ECTOMY (see
ART) go the way of the TONSILL
ECTOMY.
b) Alleged cognates of PLASM include –PLASIA, PLASMA, -PLAST, PLASTER, PLASTIC (see
PLASTIC), PLASTID and –PLASTY.
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