Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Etymology" in English language version.
What were originally metaphorical uses often come to be apprehended as primary meanings of words, so that their metaphorical origin can only be recovered through etymological research.
Trauma, of course, has a metaphoric etymology and historical origin and history. We use it medically to relate to violent sudden injury to the body, and psychologically to refer to mental states of having been shaken and profoundly distressed by an experience. [...] The Greek, Sanskrit, and Persian origin of tere, to which the word trauma is related, goes back to 1500 BC and refers to an 'open hole' as in a nostril, or by extension any hole in the body, while another meaning of the term captures the sense of passing through or changing from a state without the hole to a state with the hole.
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Trauma, of course, has a metaphoric etymology and historical origin and history. We use it medically to relate to violent sudden injury to the body, and psychologically to refer to mental states of having been shaken and profoundly distressed by an experience. [...] The Greek, Sanskrit, and Persian origin of tere, to which the word trauma is related, goes back to 1500 BC and refers to an 'open hole' as in a nostril, or by extension any hole in the body, while another meaning of the term captures the sense of passing through or changing from a state without the hole to a state with the hole.
