Re: Yule/wheel

--- In cybalist@..., "brianbeck_au" <babeck@...> wrote:

> ...The earliest reconstruction of Yule I could
> find was Proto-germanic *jehwula or *je(g)wula, and for wheel
> *hwehwula *hwegwula. Admittedly similar, but how does the 'hw'
> change to 'j'?

One PIE word for "wheel" was [kwkwlos], whic I suspect started as
onomatopoeia for the noise that a cartwheel (without modern-type
rubber tyres and bearings) makes.

Unless a word like "youe" cn be found in other PIE lamguages, is it a
substratum word taken from Saamic / Lappish?