the Wheel and Dating PIE

[Miguel Carrasquer Vidal]

Hans_Holm at h2.maus.de (Hans Holm) wrote:

>S>"What if all the IE words like *kwekwlo- or *rotHo- , and Gr. trochos
>S>are older than the wheel/chariot/wagon,
>..
>of cause the word is older: cf hebrew golgatha< gol-gol-tha 'place of
>scull', where the scull is named after its rounded form, or cf. the
>Ngoro-ngoro-crater in eastern Africa, where of cause n- is the Swaheli
>class-prefix, and again we get the word for 'circle' < 'round-round'.

>But: the use for wheel seems to be specific IE.

Not really.  Gamqrelidze and Ivanov quote Sumerian gigir, Hebrew
gilga:l, galgal, Georgian borbal, gorgal, "wheel" or "chariot".

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Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
mcv at wxs.nl