De la création à l’utilisation Quelques échos de correspondance entre formes de pensée et formes de langage dans les langues indo-européennes anciennes

This contribution assesses the metaphorical strategies reflecting our conceptual schemes of a linguistic sign, through an examination of some ancient etymologies mainly drawn from Greek and Hittite. We study here the processes of linguistic change capable of revealing both the permanence of ancient material until now, and the strategies used by humans to put their thoughts into words, since the impenetrable/indecipherable favours the creation of metaphorical interpretations and denominations.