Re: [tied] Re: Yule/wheel

Germanic *jegula- (or similar) is unclear. It refers to a period ("month") overlapping November/December or December/January, probably intended to include the winter solstice. I've seen attempts to connect it with PIE *jek- 'speak solemnly, explain, announce', from which a term for 'consecration, ceremony' could be derived, but this is of course highly speculative. Cognacy with *kWekWlo- is ruled out.

Piotr

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Subject: [tied] 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?