Re: Holy water hole

From: tgpedersen
Message: 43795
Date: 2006-03-13

> For säng Hellquist associates with Anglosaxon Saecing, a sack filled
> with hey.
> Would a derivation of säng from sänk- be lautgesetzlich? Or was it
> perhaps in the pre-Germanic language you suggest.
>

Damn, I forgot that one!

from Hwang-cherng Gong: The System of Finals in Proto-Sino-Tibetan
(in Sagart (ed.): The Ancestry of the Chines Language)

[Old Chinese reconstructed roots]
*gwrjangx "to go to", *gwrjag "to go"
*mjang "not", *mjag "not, so"
*ngang "I, me", *ngag "we, my, our"
*lang "lift, raise", *lag "lift"
*sjang "mutually", *sjag "mutually"
*dzjang "school". *dzjagx "school"
*nrjang "girl, woman", *nrjagx "girl, woman"
*ngrjang "go to meet", *ngrjak "go to meet", *ngrags "meet"
*njak "like, as, if". *njag "like, if"
*njak "you", *njagx "you", Written Burmese nang "you"


Torsten