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Hallo reader,

we start today with SECURIS. It is a WEAPON, an AX.

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The 'Proto IndoEuropean' root sec- means to cut. 

From the same root we have the word sex. 

I will write about sex below, but now firstly about the securis.

There are many axes that are called very similar:

Latin securis

Byzantine Greek tzikourion, tsekoúrion

Greek sagaris

Proto Slavic sekyra

Turkish çakar, çakan

I suggest the Turkish root çak-, meaning to hit, to hammer, to nail, to ram aaaannnd to cut.

It is a very old root that is still in use. In Chagatai Turkish there is/was a word called çak-an (meaning AX), from the same root with an other derivational affix that makes out of a verb a noun in a similar way like -ar.

Turkish Language had given Persian the word çāḳū (knife), Indian çaku, Mongolian çaku. 

Original Turkish word for all those is: çakı (jackknife) from the root çak- (to cut, to hit, etc.)

The Byzantine Greek words tzikourion, tsekoúrion give us the hint that the first letter should be ç, because the Greeks can not speak this letter but they say for that tz or ts. This is an other pillar that supports my thesis.

Sagaris should be the predecessor of tzikourion, it is simply older. AND it has no clear etymology.

This ax/war hammer was the weapon go middle Asian Scythian warriors who sat on the horse and fought. It is a perfect weapon for these mounted warriors because it was light and one side was not sharp. It was used by Amazons, too.

Scythian archer holding a sagaris, as depicted by the vase-painter Euphronios on an Attic red-figure neck amphora (510–500 BC, Louvre) (source wikipedia)

So far my suggestion. I think, it is acceptable.

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And now to sex:

Olcas Sleymanov wrote that the European got the number 6 with a wrong name. For example English six or German sechs. 

It should be actually '8' that is called six or sechs.

Turkish word for 8 is sekiz meaning like 'to make love' sekis-. SEKIS is very similar to sex and sechs. The number 8 has the figure of a (woman) body, so that Olcas' Thesis could be right and I think we can't ignore a thesis of great Linguist Olcas Sleymanov.

And a fun fact:

Latin sec- is mirror image of Turkish kes- (mirror image), meaning to cut.

Interesting, too.

Keser means in Turkish adz from the root kes-, to cut.

Ok the last word:

There is an other ax called Francisca, Frank ax, derived from Proto-Germanic *sahsą (“knife, dagger”)(wiktionary) is very similar to out root 'çak-' and the Ancient Turkish word çakı (jackknife). Maybe?

Uzunbacak Adem