Alliance for Mystical Pragmatics

Alliance for Mystical Pragmatics

Harmonizing Evolutionary Convergence

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mei-¹

PIE base base ‘to change, go, move’, with derivatives referring to the exchange of goods and services within a society as regulated by custom or law.

Derivatives, other than those listed below, include in English common, mutate, mutual, miss ‘in a changed manner’, municipal ‘service performed for the community’, and migrate; in Sanskrit maitreya ‘friendly, benevolent’, from maitrī ‘friendship, benevolence, good will’, from mitra ‘friend, companion, associate’; and in Pāli mettā ‘loving-kindness’, the translation of Sanskrit maitrī, akin to Buddhist compassion (karunā) and love or charity (agapē) in Christianity.

[Pokorny *mei-2 ‘to change, exchange’, *mei-3 ‘to wander, go’, p. 710, *mei-gu̯- ‘to (ex)change’, p. 713,  *mei-t(h)-2, ‘to (ex)change’, p. 715.]

Maitreya

The adjective maitreya has been given as the name of a Bodhisattva and future Buddha—the fifth in the current line, Siddhartha Gautama being the fourth—Maitreya meaning ‘Loving one’.

community

Community, which is cognate with municipal ‘service performed for the community’, shares a PIE base with Sanskrit maitreya ‘friendly, benevolent’ and Pāli mettā ‘loving-kindness’ meaning ‘to change, go, move’. So community literally means ‘changing together in loving friendship’, synergistically sharing the unifying purpose to discover what communities share in common.