securis

> Plus: something I've wondered about for some time. As
> was argued, Slavic "kobyla" may be related to Latin
> "caballus". Is there also a relationship between Latin
> "securis" and Ukrainian "sokyra" (= axe) ? ******
> >
>

Yes. And there is a very similar Semitic word; Gamkrelidze & Ivanov
mention it.

Torsten