Res: [tied] Re: sea, seal

--- In cybalist@... s.com, Rick McCallister <gabaroo6958@ ...> wrote:
>
> Is there a connection between "sea" and "seal", other
> than obvious intuition. Both are said to be non-IE
> substrate words.
> As I remember,
> seal < *sealh, *sealx (vel sim)
> sea < *saiwa (vel sim)
> If so, then this presupposes some sort of suffix such
> as*-lh, *-lx, *-lk;
> or more likely a pair of suffixes *-l + Western IE -k
> If so, then what's -l doing there?
> The only -l I can think of is Etruscan genitive -Vl;
> OR is it a lateralizing of the -w-
> if such things happen, /l/ > /w/ is very common, but
> the reverse?
> So, if this is so, then we have something like:
> Scenario 1:
> *saiwa-l-k > *sea-l-k > *sealx > *sealh
> Scenario 2:
> *saiwa-k > saiwlk > *sailk > *sealk > *sealx > *sealh
> I expect to hear some good criticism from all of you
> or I'll set loose my pack of trained pit-seals on you

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Connection with *saiwa-la- "soul" (water creature)?

Torsten