Re: [tied] Helios

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Carl Hult <datalampa@...> wrote:

>
> Many cultures have referred to the sun as being a wheel or circle

of

> fire. Anyone for a connection with wheel?
>
> Carl Hult

"The sun was a wheel ... like a chariot-wheel"

~ AETIUS [Aetius] , d. 367, Syrian theologian.

seems to me the word 'helix' [spiral] (as a *spinning wheel* motif?)
might well be anciently connected with the name 'Helios', if not
etymologically, then by association?

ric

>
> 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