The root _bhelso_, with the meanings “to ring, to bark,” is found in Sanskrit _bhas_ = to bark and _bhâs_ = to talk, to speak; Lithuanian _balsas_ = voice, tone. Really _bhel-sô_ = to be bright or luminous. Compare Greek φάλος = bright, Lithuanian _bálti_ = to become white, Middle High German _blasz_ = pale. The root _lâ_, with the meaning of “to make sound, to bark,” is found in Sanskrit _las_, _lásati_ = to resound; and _las_, _lásati_ = to radiate, to shine. The related root _lesô_, with the meaning “desire,” is also found in Sanskrit _las_, _lásati_ = to play; _lash_, _láshati_ = to desire. Greek λάσταυρος = lustful, Gothic _lustus_, New High German _Lust_, Latin _lascivus_. A further related root, _lásô_ = to shine, to radiate, is found in _las_, _lásati_ = to radiate, to shine. This group unites, as is evident, the meanings of “to desire, to play, to radiate, and to sound.” A similar archaic confluence of meanings in the primal libido symbolism (as we are perhaps justified in calling it) is found in that class of Egyptian words which are derived from the closely related roots _ben_ and _bel_ and the reduplication _benben_ and _belbel_. The original significance of these roots is “to burst forth, to emerge, to extrude, to well out,” with the associated idea of bubbling, boiling and roundness. _Belbel_, accompanied by the sign of the obelisk, of originally phallic nature, means source of light. The obelisk itself had besides the names of _techenu_ and _men_ also the name _benben_, more rarely _berber_ and _belbel_.[324] The libido symbolism makes clear this connection, it seems to me. The Indo-Germanic root _vel_, with the meaning “to wave, to undulate” (fire), is found in Sanskrit _ulunka_ = burning, Greek ἀλέα, Attic ἁλέα = warmth of the sun, Gothic _vulan_ = to undulate, Old High German and Middle High German _walm_ = heat, glow. The related Indo-Germanic root _vélkô_, with the meaning of “to lighten, to glow,” is found in Sanskrit _ulkă_ = firebrand, Greek Ϝελχᾶνος = Vulcan. This same root _vel_ means also “to sound”; in Sanskrit _vâní_ = tone, song, music. Tschech _volati_ = to call. The root _svénô_ = to sound, to ring, is found in Sanskrit _svan_, _svánati_ = to rustle, to sound; Zend _qanañt_, Latin _sonâre_, Old Iranian _senm_, Cambrian _sain_, Latin _sonus_, Anglo-Saxon _svinsian_ = to resound. The related root _svénos_ = noise, sound, is found in Vedic _svánas_ = noise, Latin _sonor_, _sonorus_. A further related root is _svonós_ = tone, noise; in Old Iranian _son_ = word. The root _své_ (n), locative _svéni_, dative _sunéi_, means sun; in Zend _qeñg_ = sun. (Compare above _svénô_, Zend _qanañt_); Gothic _sun-na_, _sunnô_.[325] Here Goethe has preceded us: “The sun orb sings in emulation, ’Mid brother-spheres, his ancient round: His path predestined through Creation, He ends with step of thunder sound.” —_Faust._ Part I.