Sneaky snakes
From: tgpedersen@...
Message: 7902
Date: 2001-07-16
Something else occurred to me:
En. sneak
Sw. slinka
Ge. schleichen
Da. snige
En. sly
Sw. slug (?)
Da. snu
Go. snutr-s
Ge. schlau
and I found in Cuny (who relates it to ON snúa "wriggle")
Hebrew
laHasa
with a variant
naHasa
"serpent" (yes, that one).
So is it *n/l-g-?
Torsten