In a message dated 12/14/99 11:58:19 PM Mountain Standard Time,
gpiotr@... writes:
<< Secondly, the agreement for 'wagon' is very different from that for
'three', 'mother', 'foot' or 'sky'
-- not really. *ueghnos gives "wagon" in Old Irish (fen), Welsh (gwain), Old
Norse (vagn).
The derivatives of *ueghitlom mean "vehicle" in Latin (vehiculum), Sanskrit
(vahitram), while *uoghos yields wagon or chariot in Slavic (OCS vozu),
Mycenaean (wokos) etc.
The PIE status of wagon, wheel, axle, etc., are quite firm.
Which is to be expected, since PIE is a language of the late-Neolithic
period, 4th millenium BCE.