Re: sea, seal

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Abdullah Konushevci"
<akonushevci@...> wrote:

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> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "tgpedersen" <tgpedersen@> wrote:
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> > --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Rick McCallister <gabaroo6958@>

wrote:

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

> 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.

Dansk etymologisk ordbog:
sæl ODa. sial, siæl, Nw. sel, OSw siæl, Sw säl, själ, ON selr, MLG
sel, OHG selah, selho, OE seolh, Eng. seal; from Gmc. *selha, which
possibly means "the one who pulls himself, drags along", formed to IE
*selk- "pull", to which also Eng. OE sulh "furrow, plow", Lat.
sulca:re "plow", sulcus "furrow", Gr. (h)elko: "pull"


Torsten