[tied] Re: PIE for "eel"

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> Dear Torsten and Cybalists:
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> From: tgpedersen@...
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> Sent: Thursday, July 12, 2001 4:59 AM
> Subject: [tied] Re: PIE for "eel"
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> "You have to [twist, wind, make shady deals] said the eel (, it

was

> lying in the frying pan)".
> (Danish saying)
>
> There´s your verb root (ON snúa).
>
> And I wasn't thinking of just creepy-crawliness, but something

more

> destructive.
>
> [PCR]
> I favor the opinion that the "eel"-word derives from an IE *a:/al-

, which is analyzable into *a:-, 'water'+ *le/o-, 'worm'.

>
> Pat
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> "Veit ec at ec hecc, vindgá meiði a netr allar nío,
> geiri vndaþr . . . a þeim meiþi, er mangi veit,
> hvers hann af rótom renn." (Hávamál 138)

My NuDansk Ordbog says of ål, Aal, eel etc "of unknown origin". But
all we need is -ng- to relate it to the anguilla. So how about using
the old Germ. "Hengst" vs N.Gmc "hest" trick again (ng > ng, nX >
nothing).

Torsten