Sun salt

> Yes, I must accept /a/ as a PIE phoneme, since it sometimes occurs
> in environments where it would cause even greater embarrassment to
> posit /H2e/ or /eH2/. Some examples are *yag^- 'sacrifice', *sal-
> 'salt', *na:s- 'nose', but there are not many.

I was wondering if there might be a way to connect sun, *sh2-wel-,
with salt, *sh2el-? (also sea, salt water). Semantically it would make
sense, since the way you got salt was by letting sea water evaporate
in the sun in dammed-in fields (note also the various Germanic verbs
in sw-, German schwelen "smolder", sweat (*swed-), seethe (*seud-)).


Torsten