Re: [tied] Re: PIE Ploughs

20-01-04 23:33, Sergejus Tarasovas wrote:

> 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').

Ah, of course, I forgot. So we have nearly all the variants of the
instrumental suffix -- *-trom, *-tlom and *-dHlom -- with the *h2arh3-
root. It looks more like independent derivation than an inherited item.

Piotr