Re: plough

--- In cybalist@..., "Sergejus Tarasovas" <S.Tarasovas@...> wrote:

> --- In cybalist@..., tgpedersen@... wrote:
>
> > What is the date of the quote of those <plaumorati>?
>
> Sorry, I don't remember the exact date and have to consult some of

my

> books. About the beginning of our era. The word is hardly Slavic -
> rather from some language in Pannonia.
>
> Sergei

I was reminded of *pl-wm- in the Greek for "lungs", supposedly
meaning "floaters", and I got an image of the wheels holding up the
plough from the wet, muddy field like two floats. I suppose, without
ever having tried it, that the problem of ploughing with a wheelless
plough is to keep it from digging itself down into the wet ground.

Torsten