Re: [tied] Re: There was a crooked snake

From: Piotr Gasiorowski
Message: 7876
Date: 2001-07-14

I think Germanic *snak-o:n may be related to *(s)nah2- "swim", just like the "boat" word, which would give us a nice semantic distiction between "swimmers" (grass snakes) and "twisters" (adders, *ne:dr-o:n < *neh1-tr-). Skt. na:gá- refers to elephants as well as snakes and is supposed to be a vriddhied derivative of *nogW-o- 'naked (here: hairless)'.
 
Piotr
 
 
----- Original Message -----
From: João S. Lopes Filho
To: cybalist@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Friday, July 13, 2001 4:08 PM
Subject: Re: [tied] Re: There was a crooked snake

How about a relation between SNAKE and NAGA ? *SNAG- ?