From: Tavi
Message: 66206
Date: 2010-06-18
--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Tavi" <oalexandre@...> wrote:
>The most obvious candidate is *wel- 'warm, heat' (English well 'to well up', Albanian valë 'heat, boiling', Armenian gol 'heat' (Mallory & Adams 2006, p. 348), thus suggesting a root *wel-k-. Their reconstruction of an IE root *wºlka:no-/*wºlkeH2no- 'smith god' seems to be a forced one.
> This of course raises the question of the actual etymology of the root
> *Vulc- ~ *Mulc-, (as you suggest) possibly 'to melt, to soften'.
>
The root *wel-k- also explains Basque ol(h)a 'forge, foundry' < *bol:(h)a.