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

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

>
>
> > 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-
>

Oops and BTW
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/56501
referring to
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/30032
Kuhn should have moved Lat. sa:l up among the pairs, paired with Gmc.
salt-.
Now if these water-oriented words were loaned into the a-voweled 'mots
populaires' of Latin and into Germanic from Venetic, then the river
names in sal- are Venetic too. And Sal- is one of Krahe's Old European
roots in river names, but Old European is supposed to be Venetic
anyway. It all adds up.


Torsten