Re: Eagle and salt

--- In cybalist@..., Miguel Carrasquer <mcv@...> wrote:

> On Fri, 29 Nov 2002 14:18:27 -0000, "tgpedersen"
> <tgpedersen@...> wrote:
>
> >Two questions:
> >
> >1) is the second element a suffix or a separate morpheme, and if

the

> >latter, what does it mean?
>
> It's apparently a suffix. I don't know what if anything it means.
>
> >2) is the first element equal to the *ar- of *ar-ja-(possibly as
> >totem animal)? I'm thinking of Dutch adelaar, German Adler,
> >literally "noble (bird/eagle)?", which shows the idea was not that
> >alien to the PIE speakers.
>
> Adelaar, Adler are composites made of adel + *aran "eagle".

Yes, I know, that's what I said. My question was whether the **xar-
part of your eagle root was identical to the *ar- of *ar-ja- "noble
etc", aryaman?

Torsten

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