Re[2]: [tied] Re: On the ordering of some PIE rules

At 3:54:21 PM on Sunday, April 20, 2008, fournet.arnaud
wrote:

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> Pokorny 67 arkw "arc, flèche"
> Latin arcus "arc"
> Germanique *arxwo: "flèche"
> Grec ardis "flèche"
> The Greek word does not have the -kw / q suffix.

And does not belong to Pokorny's *arqu-. Beekes suggests
*h2erd- 'point', making it cognate with OIr <aird> 'point,
extremity, direction' < PCelt. *ardi-. ON <erta> 'to taunt'
< *artjan could go here as well.

Brian