Re: [tied] Yule's etymology and IE roots (or not)

If I give you a description of what they did in these times when the
word was first attested, can you make a more direct etymological
description then?

The first time the word yule was recorded it was said that they DRANK
yule, not celebrated. By that they didn´t mean that yule was a drink
but it was THE drink of all drinks, the drink which signified the end
of a year and the birth of a new. This description has led many
amateurs to link it to wheel, on the notion that the year is a wheel
and when they got to the top of the wheel it all started over.

Carl Hult

Joao S. Lopes:

> Is there any etymology for English yule (OE geol, Anglian giuli ON
> jól, ýlir Gothic jiuleis) beside *yegWH-, cf. Greek zophos?
> The Germanic forms point to many possibilities
> jeula-
> jeuwula-
> jeuhula- (?)
> jeuhla- (?)
> jeulula- (haplology)
> jewula-
> jehula- (?)
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> In some sites I find attempts to link it to *kWelo- "to turno", what
> would lead to a -hwula- ending...
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> Joao SL
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