From: stlatos
Message: 48778
Date: 2007-05-29
>I don't think so; but even if it were true, why would that favor
> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "stlatos" <stlatos@> wrote:
> > > > I think that PIE *kaltlos kl,tl(e)+ 'pole/pedestal
> > > > used to raise something' came to mean 'neck' (as, for
> > > > example, using 'pot' for 'head').
> > >
> > > That root is new to me.
> >
> > It's *kel/kal+ 'raise' + *tlo+s used in tools.
> I think the English semantics of 'neck' might be misleading you.
> 'Hals' in 'Scandinavian' and German means both "neck" and "throat",
> and it's the latter sense ("narrows") you see in place names:
> Helsingfors, Helsingør etc. And then there's Kalundborg and Kolding at
> the end of fjords, Kolind Sund, a now reclaimed longish lake. That
> sense might have been the first one.