Re: Origin of *h2arh3-trom 'plough'

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski <gpiotr@...> wrote:
>
> > As proposed by Alinei, the word 'plough' would be an Iron Age
Wanderwort
> > related to Celtic **Flow-jo-* 'rudder'.
>
> There are lots of words related to Celtic *Fluwio- ~ *Fluwi: (as it
> should be reconstructed, cf. MW llyw, OIr. luí) all over the place.
But
> they are nautical, not agricultural, from the widespread root *pleu-
> 'sail, float'.
>
The etymology makes perfectly sense, because the plough breaks earth in
the same way than a rudder breaks water. But as you apparently got a
fixation on "inherited" etymologies, the trees don't allow you to see
the forest.

***R

I'm wondering about the relationship between plow and plug

I think it would be more logical for plow to be named for the plug shape --as we see in French soc "plow" < Gaulish sukkos "pig" (vel sim.).

How far do plug words go in Germanic?

I found this on line but . . .

plug (v.) 

"close tightly (a hole), fill," 1620s, from plug (n.). Meaning "work energetically at" is c.1865. Sense of "popularize by repetition" is from 1906. Slang sense "put a bullet into" is recorded from 1870. Related: Plugged; plugging.

plug (n.) 

1620s, originally a seamen's term, probably from Du. plug, from M.Du. plugge "bung, stopper," related to Norw. plugg, Dan. pløg, M.L.G. pluck, Ger.pflock; ultimate origin uncertain. Sense of "wad or stick of tobacco" is attested from 1728. Electrical sense is from 1883; meaning "sparking device in an internal combustion engine" is from 1886. Meaning "advertisement" first recorded 1902, American English, perhaps from verb sense "work energetically at" (c.1865).