Re: Comparative Notes on Hurro-Urartian, Northern Caucasian and Indo

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Andrew Jarrette" <anjarrette@...>
wrote:

>
> An aside: The words for "axle" in many IE languages, including
> the English word and Latin <axis> among others, I assume derives
> from the root *ag^- "to drive".

Maybe rather from *ak^-. Compare Sanskrit akS- "pass through,
penetrate", itself possibly a desiderative of az- "penetrate".
The axle passes through the centers of its wheels.

David