the Wheel and Dating PIE

[Stefan Georg]

>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".

And there's Sino-Tibetan *golo.

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