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

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

> --- 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
>

I've reorganised the site. Now the axe may be found here:

http://www.angelfire.com/rant/tgpedersen/Opr.html (cult axe)
http://www.angelfire.com/rant/tgpedersen/Hg.html

I have recklessly combined the "axe" root with the *tek^s-
"construct" (and occasionally "axe") root. PIE does not have a 't-
preformative' but maybe a donor language does, and for some reason
Austronesian is full of 'taka' "axe" words?

Torsten