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cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Richard Wordingham"
<richard.wordingham@...> wrote:
> Could *h2arh3trom have
> actually originally meant 'hoe'?
>
> Richard.
For what it's worth, Lith. <árklas> (<*h2erh3tlom, with Baltic
*tl>kl) means mostly 'a primitive wooden plow' (originally something
like a bole with the branches only partially lopped off -- cf. Slavic
*soxá 'primitive wooden plow; stick with a fork' and Lith.
<s^akà> 'branch', <s^ãke:s> '(pitch)fork').
Sergei