Re: [tied] Re: Gimbutas.; Sea

>> >Germanic does have a proportion of vocabulary which appears to be

non-IE,

>> >the origin of which is still unsure.
>>
>> 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). Marc
>
>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

Interesting. Thanks. I find Gothic saiws = lake, marsh.

Marc