Torsten:
>I looked it up: it was Bomhard, not M�ller, and it was the cognates
>of Latin 'rota', not the *k-l- word, but other than that, it was
>accurate. My ears are red.
That's what I thought. I remember this root. The IE root is *rotx-
and if I recall, the Semitic equivalent was supposed to convey "to roll"
containing a t-underdot. Unfortunately, I think I've permanently lost
my precious "Indo-European and the Nostratic Hypothesis" in my
incessant moving last year. I thought the connection was interesting,
not because it is a Nostratic root (surely it isn't), but rather because I
think that this might be indicative another Semitic loanword into IE
during some point in the neolithic.
= gLeN
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