Re: [tied] Re: Sarasvati

From: Piotr Gasiorowski
Message: 4033
Date: 2000-09-24

 
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From: João Simões Lopes Filho
To: cybalist@egroups.com
Sent: Friday, September 22, 2000 11:40 PM
Subject: Re: [tied] Re: Sarasvati
 

 
I think contamination is more likely than the ultimate identity of willow names. Large tree species like the white willow (Salix alba) or the crack willow (S. fragilis) would be *(s)welik-, while osiers (S. viminalis) and various sallow-like shrubs (S. cinerea, S. purpurea, etc.) would be *sal(i)k- (*sxalk-?). What the Greeks called helos (floodplain, riverside meadow) is precisely the kind of habitat favoured by willows, hence my tentative idea that *swel-ik- and *swel-es- could be cognates (*(s)wel- 'flood, engulf').
 
Piotr
 
 
Joao:
Maybe the alternance *swelik- / *salik- = *sxwelik-? ( with different vocalizations : swelik- and s@...)?
Or is there  some kind of contamination?