Yew Two

[JoatSimeon at aol.com]

In a message dated 6/24/01 10:59:43 PM Mountain Daylight Time,
X99Lynx at aol.com writes:

> Because I suspect that words like Irish <iubhar>, Gaelic <iubhar>, Old Irish
> <ibar> were words that could have developed as trade words,

-- No.  This is out of the question; obviously false.

PIE *eiuos, "yew", is attested by cognates in Celtic, Germanic, Baltic,
Slavic, and (probably) Hittite.

This is more than enough, by the usual rules, to guarantee PIE status for
*eiuos.