Re: PIE for early stone-cutters or stone-workers

From: x99lynx@...
Message: 13451
Date: 2002-04-24

"kalyan97" <kalyan97@...> wrote:
<<What would be the PIE words for workers on stone, say, lapidaries
drilling holes into stones to create ring-stones, or drilling into
triangular stone or terracotta cakes to use them as weights to
strands of fibre for weaving?>>

I'll get a hold of my Buck's Synonyms in the next two days and see what it
says.
Should there be a PIE word for stone worker or mason? Certainly an old
profession.

Steve

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