Re: is the word «ax» from a non IE root?

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "siglo_20th_century"
<siglo_20th_century@...> wrote:

> Someone told me that ax, although spread through the IE family, is
> really a borrowing from an outer language. This should have

happened

> in prehistoric times. If so any ideas where it may come from?

He might have read it here:

http://www.angelfire.com/rant/tgpedersen/plk2.html

Torsten