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=========================================================================<br></div><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">From: </span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="HcCDpe"><span class="EP8xU" style="color: rgb(0, 104, 28);">Luc Hellinckx</span> <span class="lDACoc"><<a href="mailto:luc.hellinckx@gmail.com">luc.hellinckx@gmail.com</a>></span></span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Subject: </span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="HcCDpe">LL-L "Etymology"<br><br></span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
Beste Ron,</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
You wrote:</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<blockquote style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" type="cite">Not
only that, but -- and now hang on to your socks! -- the "hell" branch
as well! Gothic <i>halja</i>, Old Norse <i>hel</i> (and Hel, the
goddess of death), Old German <i>hell(i)a</i>, Old Saxon <i>hel</i>, <i>hellia</i>, Old Low Franconian <i>hella</i>, Old Frisian <i>helle</i>, Old English <i>hell</i>. <br>
<br>
At the root of
all of the above is supposed to be Indo-European *<i>k̂el-</i>. My personal hunch
is that this originally referred to living and hiding in caverns, hence
a connection with slopes and rocks and also with (subterranean) hell.
Furthermore, it is very well possible that English "hole" and "hollow"
belong to this.<br>
</blockquote>
<br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
I really like your cave-theory, even though it implies the merger of
two different PIE-roots, *</span><i style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">k̂el-</i><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">. Still, I guess it
may be possible, if only you go back far enough in time.<br>
<br>
Giving this topic a somewhat more Lowlandish twist, here's a list of
German words, having non-PIE-"cognates": <br>
<br>
<a href="http://home.arcor.de/urdeutsche/index11.htm" target="_blank">http://home.arcor.de/urdeutsche/index11.htm</a><br>
<br>
And <span><span> :-D </span></span>, to your
utter delight, you will see that the same author, Marcelo Jolkesky,
even mentions a Hamburger-culture, 14000 years before Big Mac was
invented: <br>
<br>
<a href="http://home.arcor.de/urdeutsche/index8.htm" target="_blank">http://home.arcor.de/urdeutsche/index8.htm</a> <br>
</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
Kind greetings,</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" color="#888888">
<br>
Luc Hellinckx</font><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">