Re: [tied] Re: PIE for "eel"

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From: tgpedersen@...

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Sent: Thursday, July 12, 2001 4:59 AM

Subject: [tied] Re: PIE for "eel"

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 "You have to [twist, wind, make shady deals] said the eel (, it was
lying in the frying pan)".
(Danish saying)

There´s your verb root (ON snúa).

And I wasn't thinking of just creepy-crawliness, but something more
destructive.

[PCR]

I favor the opinion that the "eel"-word derives from an IE *a:/al-, which is analyzable into *a:-, 'water'+ *le/o-, 'worm'.

 

Pat

 

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