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Re: Finnish, IE, Germanic

From:bnathyuw <bnathyuw@...>
Date:Wednesday, November 27, 2002, 12:13
 --- "M. Astrand" <ysimiss@...> wrote: > Robert
B Wilson <han_solo55@...> wrote:
> > > >On Sat, 23 Nov 2002 20:12:18 +0200 "M. Astrand" > <ysimiss@...> > >writes: > >> Robert B Wilson <han_solo55@...> wrote: > >> >Germanic *_jehwla_; Finnish _juhla_ > 'celebration, festival, party' > >> > >> I don't know, but it sounds likely that they are > connected. > >> If *jehwla also is the origin of Swedish jul > "Christmas", that was > >> later > >> borrowed to Finnish again as joulu. :) > > > >perhaps this word was borrowed into Germanic, as i > cannot find an IE > >etymology for it? > > I visited library again, and according to the books > *jehwla- or *jegwla- > actually is a Germanic word borrowed into Finnish. > And yes, that is where Sw. jul comes from.
well, we have it ourselves in the word |Yule|, which was, iirc, the pagan midwinter festival. hence yuletide and yule logs ( or are these confined to england/uk ? ) in iceland they also have |júl| for 'xmas' bn just checked the oed, which says ( unfortunately they use graphics for non-standard letters and they don't copy ) : (jul) Forms: 1 eol, eochol, eoh(h)ol, -el, eh(h)ol, ehhel, eola, iula, 2 iol, 2-4 ol (yol), 3 eol, 4 ool, 4-5 ole, 5 oil(l, yoyll(e, owle, yowle, youle, yole, yoole, wle, (yold(e), 5- 7 ule, 6 oile, uill, ull, owill, -ell, oull, eoll, (ewle), 6-7 yeul, yewl, yool, yuill, uil, (ule, 9 yuhl), 6- yule. Also dial. (in comb.) 7 yew, 7-8 yu, u. [The modern form descends from OE. eól, earlier eoh(h)ol, eh(h)ol, also eóla sometimes pl.) Christmas day or Christmastide, and in phr. se rra eóla December, se æftera eóla January; corresp. to ON. jól pl. a heathen feast lasting twelve days, (later) Christmas. An Old Anglian iuli, recorded by Bede (see quot. 726 in sense 1) as the name of December and January, corresponds to ON. ýlir month beginning on the second day of the week falling within Nov. 10-17, and Goth. jiuleis in fruma jiuleis November. The ultimate origin of the Teut. types *jeul- (jeul-) and *jeul-:pre-Teut. *jeqwl- is obscure.] http://dictionary.oed.com/cgi/entry/00290731?query_type=word&queryword=yule&edition=2e&first=1&max_to_show=10&sort_type=alpha&search_id=ttYL-sBdY1K-1234&hilite=00290731 __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Everything you'll ever need on one web page from News and Sport to Email and Music Charts http://uk.my.yahoo.com

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