From: CeiSerith@...
Message: 16547
Date: 2002-10-29
2) I remember to have read in some book that *pork^os < *perk^- "to dig"
That's roughly what the Encylopedia of Indo-European Culture says: "From *perk^- 'dig/root up the earth,' i.e., *por'k^os would be an agent noun, i.e., 'one who roots.'"
David Fickett-Wilbar