Re: Helios

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "afyangh" <fournet.arnaud@...> wrote:

>
> > Personally, I've been puzzled by toponyms in *hal- and places of
> > salt extraction: Bad Hallein at Salzburg, Halle on the Saale
> > River.
> > Torsten
> ===
> Interesting,
> If one accepts the idea that *sal "salt" is from *zah-l "sea"
> normally *z should be one form of PIE *H2,
> Then hal from *zahl is an archaism : H2 not lost altogether.

More likely *sal- > *hal-, as Rick says.

> What does Saale (River) stem from ?

I don't know of an official etymology.

> Itself a variant of *zahl ?
> Do you a map of salt-extraction places sounding hal/sal ?

I'm afraid not. Btw I learned somewhere that the -ein < *-unja, which
is old and rare, possibly not Germanic (Perk-unja > Hercynia,
Fergunja; wust-unja > Du. woestijn "desert", cf ChSl. pustynia "desert").


Torsten