the Wheel and Dating PIE

[JoatSimeon at aol.com]

In a message dated 1/29/00 3:19:23 AM Mountain Standard Time, edsel at glo.be
writes:

>So, the linguistic spread of these words is not necessarily (in my view NOT)
>related to spread of the 'wheel technology' nor to its dating. If the
>technology had been responsible for the spread of the word(s), it is likely
>that all IE lgs. would have adopted the same word, quod non.

-- the fact that the _same_ words are used over so many language familes is
strongly indicative.