Re: [tied] Weaving

On 2006-07-27 22:05, tgpedersen wrote:

> (1)
> zhì: .. / ts´j&k / *t&k `to weave' <>
> zhì / ts´ïC / *t&kh (< *t&k-h < *t&k-s) `weaved material'
> Compare:
> WT `tHag- (< *N-tak), btags (< *b-tak-s) `to weave' <>
> tHags (< *tak-s) `weaved material'
> "
>
> I would normally be wary of proposing cognacy with PIE
> based on just one etymon, but this one was too tempting.
> Did PIEers weave?

I'd be surprised if they hadn't. Woven textiles and basketry seem to
have been known in Central Europe (and presumably elsewhere, though the
taphonomic odds against the preservation of such materials are heavy)
among the Gravettian mammoth-hunters of the Upper Palaeolithic, some
twenty millennia before PIE.

http://www.unl.edu/rhames/courses/current/venus1.pdf

Piotr