Re: [tied] Helios

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski <gpiotr@...> wrote:

>
> On 2006-08-22 03:01, Joao S. Lopes wrote:
>
> > Is there some example of *sH2wen- outside Germanic?
>
> Avestan, which often preserves beautiful examples of archaic
> declensions, shows a heteroclitic paradigm: huuar&: < *s(u)va:r <
> *s(h2)wó:l, gen. xV&:Ng < *svans < *s(h2)wén-s (originally the
> proterokinetic genitive of *sáh2wl.).
>
> Piotr
>

i am a layman, but in looking at all these archaic IE forms for sun,
i wonder if there is a case for separating the *sae'wel into its
component parts

1) sae-, 2)wel

the second component is a root, but what of the first?

thanks,

ric