Re: [tied] Re: Language - Area - Routes

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From: tgpedersen@...

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Sent: Wednesday, February 07, 2001 11:09 AM

Subject: [tied] Re: Language - Area - Routes

> [of syssel] Thank you, but we still have the word in Danish. I know its semantics.

I'm sure you do :). It was for the benefit of other Cybalist members.

> PGmc aluth "ale" > Fi. olut, and similarly in Estonian and Latvian, but not AFAIK in Lithuanian (also > Da. "øl" bier). If you have been to these parts you know how sacred this drink is here.

It's sacred for many Poles as well, not to mention Czechs :)). The Lithuanian word is alus (also Old Prussian alu, perhaps 'mead' rather than 'beer'). There is also OCS olU 'beer' (modern Slavic pivo is an innovation). *olu-t- is an old cultural term shared by all the IE language groups of Northern Europe and borrowed into Baltic Finnic at a very early date.

 

Piotr