From: tgpedersen
Message: 45569
Date: 2006-07-28
>I'd have to argue for some later invention within the
> On 2006-07-27 22:05, tgpedersen wrote:
>
> > (1)
> > zhì: .. / ts´j&k / *t&k `to weave' <>
> > zhì / ts´ïC / *t&kh (< *t&k-h < *t&k-s) `weaved material'
> > Compare:
> > WT `tHag- (< *N-tak), btags (< *b-tak-s) `to weave' <>
> > tHags (< *tak-s) `weaved material'
> > "
> >
> > I would normally be wary of proposing cognacy with PIE
> > based on just one etymon, but this one was too tempting.
> > Did PIEers weave?
>
> I'd be surprised if they hadn't. Woven textiles and basketry
> seem to have been known in Central Europe (and presumably
> elsewhere, though the taphonomic odds against the preservation
> of such materials are heavy) among the Gravettian
> mammoth-hunters of the Upper Palaeolithic, some twenty
> millennia before PIE.
>
> http://www.unl.edu/rhames/courses/current/venus1.pdf
>