Re: Holy water hole

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "tgpedersen" <tgpedersen@...> wrote:

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> E:rika Sausverde
> Seewörter and Substratum
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> "
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> Perhaps Danish seng, Swedish säng, Finnish sänky, Estonian
> säng "bed" belong to the same pre-PIE root.
>
> Torsten
>

Finnish sänky is a loan from 'new' Swedish 16-1700's, säng, park
bench, bed. So probably the Finnish and Estonian words don't do much
for establishing a pre-PIE root.

Peter P