Life/Eternity Words (was: More help sought - Gaelic and Germanic)

From: Richard Wordingham
Message: 36651
Date: 2005-03-05

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski <gpiotr@...> wrote:
> On 05-03-04 14:15, tgpedersen wrote:
>
> > which makes one suspect it's a loanword (some religious term) in IE.
>
> You could add the Akkadian theonym Ea (< *h.ayy- 'living').

You can also add 'Eve' (Hebrew Hawwa:).

Richard.