Re: E-DIR Quibble

You think "spirit" and "duck" are related? What about this root, also listed at the E-DIR site, next to the root meaning "spirit, breathe" -

*ant-, *anHt- "wild duck"

Hakan
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Torsten wrote -

I think it's on Hallstatt decorations that you often find a duck and
the symbolic value of that animal is supposedly lost to us. How about:

breath spirit duck
Da. ånde ånd and
Sw. (andas) ande and
La. anim- anat-

So is the duck a symbol of the soul? (But then, I don't the
corresponding Celtic glosses)..