Drus Griutinge (salws)

[Ingemar Nordgren]

In answer to myself I forgot to make another point which may make it
more clear.

Sw. 'söl', 'söla' is derived also from Gmc 'sul' and it means to soil,
make dirty, make something messy.

Best
Ingemar


--- In gothic-l at yahoogroups.com, "Ingemar Nordgren" <ingemar at ...> wrote:
 
> Hi all linguistic experts!
> 
> As totally ignorant in the linguistic field I still dare to make an
> humble suggestion about 'saul' in connection with specially 'stained'.
> In  Swedish we say' solkig' as an adjektive and 'solk' as substantive
> meaning 'dirty,stained, worn, not in shape like new' but not heavily
> dirty.The Sw.verb 'solka', No. sulka,saulka, Da. solke, sulke;
> k-avledn. to Gmc 'sul'. I even  would suggest a connection to Engl.
> 'soil'. If you get soil on a shirt it becomes 'solkig ' et c.        
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> 'saul' has the same  origin.
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> Best
> Ingemar
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