> [[polome]]. "Notes sur le vocabulaire religieux du germanique I: Runicque *alu*". *La Nouvelle Clio* 6: 40-55. 1954. [Runic Words](runic-words.md) ## Notes Polome initially proposed an etymological connection between *alu* and: - Hitt. ***alwanza*** 'cast a spell' - Gk. ***alúō*** 'I am beside myself' - Gk. ***alússō*** 'I am agitated' - Gk. ***aláomai*** 'I wander to and fro' - Latv. ***aluôt(iês)*** 'wander to and fro' - Latv. ***āᶅuôtiês*** 'howl, behave in a crazed manner' From these he formulated a PIE verbal stem: ****al-w-*** Later, the Hittite connection was conntested [(e-neu1974p77n139)]((e-neu1974).md) Later, [(g-host1980p49)]((g-host1980).md) asserted that the appearence of the word for 'beer' on a gravstone signifies that the burial feast (Norw. *gravølet* 'grave-beer') has taken place and the traditional ritual was followed according to the perscribed custom. On the interpretation of the Tune stone's *arbij* as burial feast, see (e-antonsen 1986). Later, the overall idea was supported [(e-antonsen1988p52-4)]((e-antonsen1988).md) and added to: - PGmc. ****aluþ*** '*beer*' must be derived from this same PIE stem and would have originally meant '*that which induces the ecstatic state*'. ***alu*** would have refered to the ecstatic state itself. On a cult-stone or other object ***alu*** would indicate that the object has been consecrated, perhaps by being sprinkled with beer as suggested by [(g-host1980p45)]((g-host1980).md).    Later, this etymology was proven faulty (was it? in what way?) and subsequently dropped by Polomé, though he continues [[polome1995]] to suggest that a common semantic denominator connects these words with *alu*.