--- In cybalist@..., "jdcroft" <jdcroft@...> wrote:
> Tabira in Sumerian is acknowledged as coming from a Hurrian
> substrate. It appears that Hurrian metalworkers were the
> intermediary between PIE and Sumerian for a number of words (eg.
> Sumerian gigir and PIE *kwelkos, for example).
Re: Sumerian gigir.
There is a cognate group of, perhaps onomatopoeic lexemes, tikiri, in
Dravidian:
4145.Image: potter's wheel: tikiri wheel (Cilap. 4,2); potter's wheel
(Ka_cippu. Tirunakarap. 76); discus weapon (Kampara_. cittira. 40);
royal authority (Man.i. 22,16); chariot, car (Ja_n-a_. 7,17); sun
(Akana_. 53); tikirikai wheel; potter's wheel (Ta.lex.) Image: wheel:
tiguri, tigari, tiguru a wheel, especially a potter's wheel (Ka.);
tigiri (Ta.); kumba_r-ada tiguri kula_la cakra (Ka.lex.) tekos, tekos
tekos imitative of the sound produced by the charka or spinning
wheel, to whir; tekos marte sad.e gotena it gave a whir, it sounded
whir; tekhar times; bar pe tekharic nelkedea I saw him two or three
times (Santali.lex.)
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