[tied] Re: On Arguing of the Mighty Saraswati River

From: tgpedersen
Message: 18506
Date: 2003-02-07

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski
<piotr.gasiorowski@...> wrote:
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The neuter noun <saras> means 'pool, pond', and is usually
reconstructed as *seles-, nom.sg. selos, because of Gk. helos 'marshy
meadow, backwater'.


Is that the same root as the one in the town of Lycksele, Sweden, and
Brussels (*brug-sele- "bridge pond"?)?

Torsten