the Wheel and Dating PIE

[Hans Holm]

Steve Long wrote
>then how would that word have passed into non-IE Near East languages?

.. Who maintains that? Perhaps you misunderstood me saying "of course the
word is older"? But I ended with the meaning 'round-round' as the assumed
original meaning giving the motive for the labelling of the wheel.
    So *wheel* would refer to the _form_, +rotHa- to a _function_ of the
wheel.

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Hans J. Holm, D-30629 Hannover