Re: Latin va:gi:na - PIE ?

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

Until I thought of how one made spoked wheels.

> A wheel consists of a hub (nave), some spokes and a rim. And the

rim

> is made up of curved pieces, into which are bored a hole into

which

> the spoke is inserted, and finally a steel band is heated and

shrunk

> on, which keeps in place those pieces, the names of which must

have

> had something to do with *wag-. This is not very dissimilar to

barrel-

> making. Note the a-, it is therefore a loan into the IE languages
> that arrived latest in Europe (also a- in Latin 'va:gi:na') from a
> language that arrived earlier. That language might have been an IE
> one, if the 'proper' IE root *weg- "transport" is a cognate.
>
>
> Torsten

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Dear Torsten,
I must really confess that <wheel> (Alb. <rrota>) and <vagina> (Alb.
<pidh>) are for sure, in many expressions, synonimic pair, like in
insults: <Shko në pidh të samës!> 'Go to mother's vagina!' and <Shko
në rrotë të samës> 'id.'; also <pidhi i samës> 'very clever, brave;
literaly _mother's vagina_' and <rrota e samës> 'id.'
Because there are some roots that ended in velar, as well as in
palatal, phonetically speaking, *weg- and *weg'- could be related.

Konushevci