Re: [tied] Re: PIE k^sewl-/k^selw-

Joao S. Lopes wrote:

> *ksl.wóm > *xalFon > *xaulon, xallon, xailon
> or variante *xlaFon > *khlaon
> *ksolwóm > *xolFon > xoulon, xollon, xoilon
>
> --- Rob <magwich78@...> escreveu:
>
>
> ---------------------------------
> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "tgpedersen"
> <tgpedersen@...> wrote:
>> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Joao S. Lopes"
> <josimo70@...>
> wrote:
>>> Is this plausible?
>>>
>>> PIE k^sewl-/k^selw- "log, wood"
>>>
>>> Latin silva
>>> Greek xylon
>>> Slavic su:la, su:ljI
>>> Baltic s^ulam
>>> Germanic su:l(j)o:(n), swiljo:, sauli-, swalo:

See
http://ehl.santafe.edu/cgi-bin/response.cgi?single=1&basename=/data/ie/germet&text_number=+++672&root=config

>>>
>>
>> The ks-/s- alternation fits in with Beekes'
> pre-Greek.

Note Greek ksylon and hy:le: (= Lat. silva)!

>> Da. kævle "log"? (I hasten to add "substrate")
>
> The Greek form could be regular from a form *ksl.wóm
> or *ksolwóm in
> IE, I think.
>
> - Rob
>

The word may be a borrowing from (pre-)Semitic, cf. Akk. s^alhu, s^ulhu
'wall', Egyptian sw?H.t 'stronghold', or Hebr. s.e:la:¿, Arab. d.il¿un
'rib', Eth. s.@lle, s.@lla 'beam'.



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