From: tgpedersen@...
Message: 9083
Date: 2001-09-06
> --- In cybalist@..., tgpedersen@... wrote:to
> >Traditional wisdom
> > says Rus. <plug> is a Germanic loan
>
> This can well be argued. Slavic *plugU has a pretty good Slavic
> etymology: <*plou-g- <*pleu- 'to swim', and seem (in contrast to
> *soxa 'a primitive dragged plough with no blade made of a bough')
> express an impression a wheeled plough made on the Slavs (cf. alsoWhat is the date of the quote of those <plaumorati>?
> <plaumorati> (< 'swimming wheels'), a Latinized rendering of a
> Pannonian name of a plough).
>
> Sergei