Re: Ducks and Souls

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "tgpedersen" <tgpedersen@...> wrote:

> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Ben McGarr" <celteuskara@...>
> wrote:
> > --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "tgpedersen" <tgpedersen@...>
> wrote:
> > > That must have been me. Halstatt artefacts often carry images

of

> > > ducks, Latin anat-, German Ente, Danish, Swedish and. I had the
> > idea
> > > this might be an image for the (released?) soul, Latin an-imus,
> > > Danish ånd, Swedish ande, from *an- "breathe" (Latin an-helare,
> > Dansk
> > > ånde, Swedish andas).
> >

> the bottom of
>
> http://www.angelfire.com/rant/tgpedersen/An.html
>
> Ducks there too!

Given the Greek 'nessa', the PIE duck word has been *nVs-, *anVs,
which fits the structure of roots of Schrijver's 'language of bird
names' (*raud-, *a-ru/id- "ore; copper" is also one of them), which
means it's not a native IE word, but imported.

Torsten