Handfuls of Unrelated Forms

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In a message dated 7/5/01 4:52:20 PM, proto-language at email.msn.com writes:
<< Arrows, as any child should know, rarely "go through" anything. They go
*into* things. I would bet that no one can produce a word for 'arrow' in any
language with the base meaning of 'that which goes through'.>>

In a message dated 7/7/01 1:01:42 AM, Georg-Bonn at t-online.de writes:
<< the basic meaning of /eimi/ is "to go to or into">>

I'm not sure if I'm helping here, but...

I wrote:  <eimi> ... with the sense of "pass through".  (E.g., "[pelekus]
eisin dia douros" (the axe goes through the beam) Iliad 3:61.)"  As a spear
often "goes through" a shield in Homer or an arrow might go though a
soldier's protective gear.

For a notion of what the Greeks thought an arrow might do, see, e.g.,
<katatoxeuo>.

S. Long