[tied] Re: Sun salt

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski <gpiotr@...>
wrote:

> Daniel J. Milton wrote:
>
> > Solar evaporation of sea water is one way to get salt.

Mining

> > salt deposits is another. The latter was probably preceded by

simply

> > scraping efflorescences off rocks of the proper chemistry

(usually

> > nasty bitter stuff but I've done it in a emergency myself).
> > So your suggestion, if true, has implications for the

homeland of

> > IE, which is generally considered lacking originally maritime

words.

>
> In Poland's oldest salt mine, Wieliczka (now on the outskirts of
> Kraków), where there is evidence of a thriving salt industry as

far back

> as ca. 3500 BC, salt was originally obtained by boiling saturated

brine

> and letting it crystalize in conical clay pots. Wieliczka is in

southern

> Poland, far inland.
>

Another thing that puzzled me is that areas with old salt mines have
names like Halle (on the Saale river), Bad Hallein etc. Now these
areas were once Celtic, but would a Celtic h- be borrowed into
Germanic as h-?


Torsten