Re: sea, seal

From: Abdullah Konushevci
Message: 49485
Date: 2007-08-11

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "tgpedersen" <tgpedersen@...> wrote:
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> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Rick McCallister <gabaroo6958@> wrote:
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> Connection with *saiwa-la- "soul" (water creature)?
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> Torsten
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Why not with *welk- 'to drag': Av. varǝk- 'drag': Lith. velkù (vil̃kti
), O.C.S. vlěkǫ “pull, drag”: Gk. ἄ[F]ολξ 'furrow', the original root
form of *swelk-/selk- 'to draw, pull'. Probably form *swelk- with w -
k > k - k assimilation will explain Alb helq/heq 'to pull, pull down',
so much disputed by some linguists.

Konushevci