Re: [tied] Helios

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

>
> On 2006-08-21 01:52, m6 wrote:
>
> > Can anyone tell me, what relation is the name 'Helios' to the
> > noun 'helix', please?
>
> There's no connection. Attic <hé:lios> is just one of several Ancient
> Greek versions of the word for 'sun', the others being (among other
> things) Homeric <e:élios>, Doric/Aeolic/Arcadian <aélios>, Cretan
> <abélios> (= /awélios/), etc. Together, they point to pre-Gk.
> *sa:welijos, a derivative of the PIE 'sun' word, *sah2wl., gen.sg.
> s(h2)wéns (cf. Lat. so:l, Goth. saúil and sunno:, Skt. súvar-, etc.).
> The noun <héliks> is related to the verb <eiléo:> 'turn, roll'; the
> underlying PIE root is *wel- 'turn'.
>
> Piotr

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The IE root for "sun" always struck me as surprisingly complex, at
least in the disyllabic form, such as Watkins' *sawel-.
Does seeing it as *sah2wl- change the situation?
Dan