Re: [tied] Helios

From: Piotr Gasiorowski
Message: 45841
Date: 2006-08-26

On 2006-08-26 04:43, Joao S. Lopes wrote:

> Maybe was Germanic *sunn- a non-IE word, Pre-Germanic?

Why should it be, if it can be explained without recourse to anything
exotic? The derivational process producing the "doubly weak" extension
*-(a)n- + -an- is quite a familiar thing in Germanic.

Piotr