From: Rick McCallister
Message: 49498
Date: 2007-08-11
> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowskihttp://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/43771
> <gpiotr@...> wrote:
> >
> > On 2007-08-10 10:35, tgpedersen wrote:
> >
> > >
>
> > >http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/48662
>
> > >http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/46346
>
> > >____________________________________________________________________________________
> > > Connection with *saiwa-la- "soul" (water
> creature)?
> >
> > Incidentally, the 'seal' word is *selxaz, with
> short *e
> > (diphthongised to <eo> in non-Anglian OE, hence
> <seolh>; cf. ON
> > selr). The only thing it shares with the 'sea'
> word is the initial
> > *s.
>
> It's not certain to be IE.
> from Schrijver: Lost Languages in Northern Europe,
> in Early Contacts between Uralic and Indo-European
> "
> The second substratum language I shall label "the
> language of bird
> names", as a number of non-Indo-European bird names
> in western
> Indo-European languages provide evidence on some
> significant points of
> the structure of that language (Schrijver 1997).
> Most importantly, it
> had a prefix a-, which was probably stressed and
> accompanied by
> syncope of vowels in the rest of the word; the
> language had fricatives
> such as x, ð, and it had a diphthong alien to
> Germanic and Celtic,
> something like [a&], which was rendered as a in
> British Celtic and ai
> in Germanic.
> "
>
>
> Torsten
>
>
>