IE Technological lexicon: Linguistic Archaeology Alive and Well
maher, johnpeter
jpmaher at neiu.edu
Fri Mar 19 08:28:20 UTC 1999
good
Do you know Piggott's Ancient India [Penguin]? good discussion of same.
p. s. aNNus / milleNNium
JoatSimeon at aol.com wrote:
> We should note that there are PIE roots not only for "wheel" (several
> different words) but for a whole series of related terms -- axle, nave of a
> wheel, wheeled vehicle/wagon, yoke, 'to make a journey by wagon', etc.
> There are also terms for wool, woven cloth, sewing, spinning, and weaving.
> The above are unambiguously 4th-millenium, no earlier.
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