Re: Etymology of Portuguese "calheta", Arabic?

On Feb 17, 3:21 am, craoibhi...@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
On Feb 16, 11:23 pm, "Jim Heckman" <rot13(reply-to)@none.invalid>
wrote:





On 16-Feb-2009, craoibhi...@xxxxxxxxx
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On Feb 16, 11:56 am, "Jim Heckman" <rot13(reply-to)@none.invalid>
wrote:

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By the way, what's the origin of Finnish "helvetti" = 'hell'?  Seems
unlikely the Finns have any particular animosity towards the Swiss.

It is obviously a Scandinavian loanword. In Swedish, "helvete", in
Icelandic "helvíti", which is a compound word: "hel" = the realm of
death, "víti" = punishment.

Thanks.  I knew about "hel" from Norse mythology, but otherwise I
know next to nothing about the lexicon of any North Germanic
language.

I could add that the Swedish cognate of "víti", "vite", is still a
living word - it is a legal term, meaning a certain kind of fine, in
Finnish "uhkasakko".

A different root word, I think.
'Vieta' meaning 'place' would fit better.

More likely than Latin at least.

.

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