Re: Helios

I've seen posts before that claim that *hal- is from
Celtic. If so, it may be a dialect different from
Gaulish. I seem to remember that while Welsh has /s-/

> /h-/, Gaulish didn't.

--- afyangh <fournet.arnaud@...> wrote:

> > Personally, I've been puzzled by toponyms in *hal-
> and places of salt
> > extraction: Bad Hallein at Salzburg, Halle on the
> Saale River.
> > Torsten
> ===
> Interesting,
> If one accepts the idea that *sal "salt" is from
> *zah-l "sea"
> normally *z should be one form of PIE *H2,
> Then hal from *zahl is an archaism : H2 not lost
> altogether.
> What does Saale (River) stem from ?
> Itself a variant of *zahl ?
> Do you a map of salt-extraction places sounding
> hal/sal ?
>
> Arnaud
>
>

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