Anthony A:
>One PIE word for "wheel" was [kwkwlos], whic I suspect started as
>onomatopoeia for the noise that a cartwheel (without modern-type
>rubber tyres and bearings) makes.
I don't see how a random excuse such as onomatopoeia is more desirable
than the common view that it derives from a reduplicated *kWel-.
Even semantically and grammatically, this latter view makes solid sense.
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