Re: Comparative Notes on Hurro-Urartian, Northern Caucasian and Indo

> Based on hal- vs. sal- words for "salt"? After all you do seem to
> have something similar in Bavarian/Austrian topos, or at least in
> Hallstadt vs. Salzburg. Perhaps there both forms co-existed and
> some splits of Celtic went for /h/ and others kept /s/ and the
> transformation was not completely realized

I forgot about that one. Here's more:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halle,_Saxony-Anhalt
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halle,_North_Rhine-Westphalia
versus
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saale
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fr%C3%A4nkische_Saale

and

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hallein
vs.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salzach

It seems those who named (first navigated?) the rivers had s-, but
those who produced salt had s- > h-


Torsten