the Wheel and Dating PIE

[JoatSimeon at aol.com]

>X99Lynx at aol.com writes:

<< So once again what you've said so far does not force the conclusion that the
>wheel word was introduced before PIE dispersed. >>

-- given the broad range, it makes it overwhelmingly probable. Linguistics is
not an experimental science; it deals in probabilities, not definitives.  You
are, to be frank, resisting the probabilities for reasons external to
linguistics.