--- In
cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski <gpiotr@...> wrote:
>
> On 2007-08-16 15:19, Daniel J. Milton wrote:
>
> > Watkins says only "from Old English 'to:l', possibly from old
Norse".
> Some kind of connection with *tawja- 'fit together, make' has often
been
> suggested, though some problematic details remain to be sorted out.
It seems to me most likely that something like this happened:
dowexYe+ ... dowexYtlo+
dowexYe+ ... dow-xY-tlo+
doweje+ .... dow-xY-tlo+
doweje+ .... dow-xY-tlo+
doweje+ .... dowtlo+
doweje+ .... doutlo+
toweje+ .... toudlo+
toweje+ .... toullo+
toweje+ .... to:llo+
tawiji+ .... to:lla+
tawiji+ .... to:la+
etc.
That is, I don't know any other word with au/ou followed by l in the
syllable, so smoothing seems possible.