Re: [tied] Re: sea, seal

So then the root is selx-
but there is also Scots selkie "a seal-like creature,
a were-seal", evidently from *selk-
My question was based on the fact that -ai- often
changes to -e-, as in saiwa > sea, so please explain


--- Piotr Gasiorowski <gpiotr@...> wrote:

<snip>> >

> > Connection with *saiwa-la- "soul" (water
> creature)?
>
> Incidentally, the 'seal' word is *selxaz, with short
> *e (diphthongised
> to <eo> in non-Anglian OE, hence <seolh>; cf. ON
> selr). The only thing
> it shares with the 'sea' word is the initial *s.
>
> Piotr
>
>
>

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