Re: "Understanding" kanji by breaking down the radicals

"[EMAIL PROTECTED]" writes:

> Bart Mathias <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> dixit:
> ...

> >...  I'm still pretty convinced by Boodberg's analysis where the
> >>hand under the dirt had to do with "holding (land, IIRC)," and
> >>claimed that was the idea behind "temple."  
> 
> I'm happy with that for [tera] itself, except that some think it
> derived [stop/foot] over [hand/measure] ... 
> ...

Or the other version of foot, [go/this], noted by Ueshiba, as well as
(now that I think to look) Habein and Mathias.  I don't really recall
that Boodberg found dirt in the character, only that he related the
family(?) of words written with it as an element to tension.

Bart