--- In cybalist@..., x99lynx@... wrote:> <gpiotr@...> wrote:
> <<I forgot to add that <sa:po:> 'soap' is not Celtic but Germanic
> (*saip-o:n-). It's an interesting word, BTW, and well worth a
longer > discussion.>>
>
> I have here in some notes on soap: [Watkins 1985: 56] soap < Indo-
European > *seib- "to pour out, sieve, drip, trickle" Germanic
*saip? "dripping thing, > resin." I think Pokorny has sort of the
same thing.> > In Greek, we find the forms <sapo:n>, <sapho:nion> and
<sa_po:n-ion> (and > <sa_pôn-arike: techne:>, the technique of making
soap.)
Is it possible that it was derived from the name of a plant?
saptala = f. N. of several plants (Arabian jasmine ; a soap-tree ;
Mimosa Concinna ; Abrus Precatorius ; Bignonia Suaveolens) , Susr.
(Skt.)