Re: [tied] Re: Gimbutas.; Sea

Sea < CommonGermanic *Saiwiz; Soul < CG *Saiwalaz
Could be cognate of Greek Ha:des/Ha:ides (*saiwi-d)? Maybe *Saiwiz in PIE
myth was a sort of Sea of Dead or a Underworld beyond West Ocean?

Joao SL
Rio

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From: Marc Verhaegen <marc.verhaegen@...>
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Subject: Re: [tied] Re: Gimbutas.


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> >Germanic does have a proportion of vocabulary which appears to be non-IE,
> >the origin of which is still unsure.
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> I read somewhere (G.Gritter 1993 "Van oerklank tot moedertaal" Kosmos
> Utrecht) that words like "drink, drive, sea, soul, broad..." could have
come
> from the megalithic culture in S-Scandinavia (no further explanation in
the
> book).
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> Marc
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