Re: [tied] Helios

Many cultures have referred to the sun as being a wheel or circle of
fire. Anyone for a connection with wheel?

Carl Hult

tisdagen den 22 augusti 2006 kl 01.37 skrev Piotr Gasiorowski:

> On 2006-08-21 17:56, Daniel J. Milton wrote:
>
> > 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?
>
> It must have been morphologically complex once, and the most likely
> morphological segmentation is *//seh2-wel-//, where the second morpheme
> may be a variant of *-w(e)n/r-, forming heteroclitic deverbal nouns;
> note the consonant alternation in *sáh2-wl., obl. *s(h2)-wén-, an
> original neuter noun with the animate (personified?) byform *s(h2)wó:l,
> obl. *sh2ul-. Formally, it's parallel to *páh2-wr./*ph2-wén-,
> *ph2wó:r/*ph2ur- 'fire'.
>
> Piotr
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