Re: [tied] Yule's etymology and IE roots (or not)

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

>
> Joao S. Lopes wrote:
>
> > Fin.. -hl- could come also from Germ. -thl-, -Dl-?
> > Perhaps *yeudHlo-> *jeuDla-> jeulla->jeula-?
>
> No, the *-x(W)l- is directly attested in Germanic. In West

Germanic,

> *jexWla- yields nom./acc. sg. *jehl. alternating with oblique

*jexxla-

> (with WGmc. gemination), hence the alternative OE forms <ge:ol>,
> <geoh(h)ol>, <gehhol>.
>

And some connect it with the Latin ancestor of 'joke' (I forgot its
gender, so I wont embarass myself by writing it), also giving
French 'jeu' "game" (yuletide was the season of many pranks and
games); the verb is 'joculari', I think.

Kuhn would have taken the WGerm. gemination as an indication of
Nordwestblock origin.


Torsten