was thinking the other day about how "qi" / "ki" / "prana" all mean both "breath" and "life / spirit / soul" and how i didn't know a similar word in english
but there *is* a similar word in latin and it's "anima"
en.wiktionary.org/wiki/anima#Lat
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Also mana, from the melanesians and polynesians! (also in video games) twitter.com/egocv/status/1
Beautiful description of (at least some of) these terms from Durkheim here:
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Wakan, mahopa, orenda, pokunt, manitou, nauala, yak, sgana, mana, qi, baraka, prana, all the same kind of idea
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huh really? i actually looked up mana b/c i wanted to compare it to manna (turns out they're unrelated) but i didn't see a breath etymology on wiktionary
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I believe it is thought to originally refer to strong winds and thunder, so not quiiiite the same, but similar.
a word meaning 'hidden power' (the thing that animates living creatures but also something like the wind with no obvious source) that comes to mean smth more over time
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