Re: Sun salt

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

>
> > 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-)).

And BTW, German 'schwinden' "be reduced, run low" might suddenly also
turn out to be semantically relevant and therefore related.


Torsten