the Wheel and Dating PIE

[Patrick C. Ryan]

[ moderator re-formatted ]

Dear Ed and IEists:

 ----- Original Message -----
From: "Eduard Selleslagh" <edsel at glo.be>
Sent: Thursday, February 03, 2000 12:00 PM

>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Miguel Carrasquer Vidal" <mcv at wxs.nl>
>Sent: Thursday, February 03, 2000 12:52 AM

>> "Eduard Selleslagh" <edsel at glo.be> wrote:

>>> They aren't: Actually, basically three different, and very ordinary, words
>>> that probably exist (I mean words with these meanings) in any language.  As
>>> I said before: all these words seem to have had different original meanings
>>> (*kwekwlo/'round, circle', *rotho/'revolve',

>> The primary meaning of *ret(h)-/*rot(h)- is apparently "to run".

>[Ed]
>Or "to ride" maybe?

[PR]
I have established (to my own satisfaction, at least) that Egyptian ' [hand
on outstretched arm] corresponds to IE *dh/th. On that basis, I believe that
a comparison of Egyptian r', 'sun' (ideographically written: a circle with
*central dot* [=axle?]) and IE *rot(h)o-, 'wheel', is likely.

Therefore, I would opt for a primary meaning of 'wheel', secondarily 'roll'.

Pat

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