Re: CALLING THE BLUFF ON LINGUISTIC PALAEONTOLOGY:

Rick McCallister scripsit:

> > such as `wheel' (not just `turner').
>
> What is a turner?
> Sounds like a lathe, in Spanish "torno"
> Maybe including potter's wheel, all non-transportation functions of a wheel

Or anything at all that turns.

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