--- In cybalist@..., Miguel Carrasquer <mcv@...> wrote:
> On Thu, 28 Nov 2002 11:35:21 -0000, "Piotr Gasiorowski"
> <piotr.gasiorowski@...> wrote:
>
> >Any particular reason for this correction?
>
> I was thinking about Latin sa:l, salis. But that doesn't have
a /d/,
> so the correction was unnecessary.
>
> =======================
> Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
> mcv@...
How rather annoying! Since the archive function doesn't work I can't
find your reconstruction of the "eagle" word. I believe it was **xar-
aln-az?
Two questions:
1) is the second element a suffix or a separate morpheme, and if the
latter, what does it mean?
2) is the first element equal to the *ar- of *ar-ja-(possibly as
totem animal)? I'm thinking of Dutch adelaar, German Adler,
literally "noble (bird/eagle)?", which shows the idea was not that
alien to the PIE speakers.
http://www.angelfire.com/rant/tgpedersen/Hr.html
And I'm sure you'll be delighted to know that "sun" is also on my
list, already with various extensions and suffixes in Austronesian.
http://www.angelfire.com/rant/tgpedersen/swl.html
Torsten