plough

--- In cybalist@..., Miguel Carrasquer Vidal <mcv@...> wrote:

> On Tue, 02 Oct 2001 09:08:54 -0000, tgpedersen@... wrote:
>
> >--- In cybalist@..., Miguel Carrasquer Vidal <mcv@...> wrote:
>
> >In the latter case you would expect the
> >name of the product to be derivable in the language spoken in the
> >region (cf "plough" from *pl- "swim" or "split").
>
> PIE *pl- becomes fl- in Germanic, so no.
>

I am actually aware of that.
Which is why I proposed that it is a loan in Germanic, see
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/9145
and above.

Torsten