From: Torsten
Message: 67215
Date: 2011-03-03
> For semantic reason I think *Haw-il- vel sim. is a loanword belongingIn case someone isn't yet tired of the subject:
> in with a package of astronomo-religious concepts originating with a
> group known later as
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabians
> (note the similarity of the Syriac root S-b-' "conversion by
> submersion"
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabians#Etymology
> with my proposed *saN- "salt brine hole, with preserving properties"
> (with derivative *saN-l- "the hole in the sky known as the sun") with
> the submersion (in brine) imparting some kind of symbolic
> incorruptibility.