"Franz Gnaedinger" <frgn@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Your favorite etymology of okeanos is okys nao 'I swim fast',
which Pauly rejects as worthless.
Sorry, but this is false. When you said: "Greek okys nao 'I swim fast'
may have been folk etymology for a very ancient word combination that
was no longer understood. " my answer was: "Yes, I remain to be
convinced by this etymology.", and, if my understanding of English is
correct, this means that the above etymology didn't convince me too. I
expressed my own point of view about the etymology of 'ocean' some time
ago by saying:
a (timid) hypothesis
"Root: akʷā- (richtiger ǝkʷā): ēkʷ-
English meaning: water, river
Die Zugehörigkeit von hitt. e-ku-uz-zi (ekuzi) `trinkt', 3. Pl.
a-ku-wa-an-zi, scheint mir nicht unwahrscheinlich. Hierzu auch toch. AB
yok-tsi `trinken'. Air.oiche `Wasser' existiert nicht; cymr. aig `Meer'
ist eine Neubildung zu eigion aus lat. oceanus."
(Pokorny)
The word ruah may be an abbreviation of AAR RAA CA which combines
air (aar), light as emanation of fire (raa), and sky (ca).
Everything can be everything, by adopting your method.
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