Re: Help needed re: PIE words relating to wool and textiles

Thanks, "stlatos" (whatever your name is), for the PIE
reconstructions you have quoted.

Any other clue, anyone? I have tried to do some homework on these
PIE forms, but neither a search through Pokorny's and Nikolayev's IE
etymological databases nor one on the cybalist archives helped me
much to isolate the most strongly supported reconstuctions of IE
wool-related terms. I have seen many different proposals for some of
these terms, and I'm not competent enough to judge which is
better...

Thanks to all in advance for your eventually sharing some of your
knowledge of PIE vocabulary with me and with Dr. Irene Good, who is
the person I am trying to help a little to find some good linguistic
publications and Internet resources where this subject has been
discussed.

Regards,
Francesco

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "stlatos" <stlatos@...> wrote:
>
>
> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Francesco Brighenti" <frabrig@>
> wrote:
>
> > Dear List,
> >
> > A friend asked for help to compile two lists -- one for nouns,
one
> > for verbs -- of reconstructed PIE words relating to wool and
> > textiles.
> >
> > Anyone is willing to contribute?
>
> Here are some answers (put into traditional notation without
> attempting my own work):
>
> >
> > Here are the two lists:
> >
> > 1) NOUNS
> >
> > Wool
>
> * wl,h2no-
>
> > Fleece
>
> * werwo- was probably the older form, later also L vellus, G pókos
>
> > Tuft
>
> * tuh2lo- > Skt tu:la-
>
> * walk^lo- > Skt va:la-
>
> * ml,lo- > G mallós
>
> > Fur
> > Hair
> > Thread
> > Cloth
> > Fiber
> > Knot
>
> There may not have been so many distinctions (or those that existed
> aren't so clear):
>
> * walto- 'hair'
>
> * waltyo- > * wlatiyo- > G lásios 'hairy', Balto-Sl *valtya- 'hair,
> thread, yarn'
>
> * walk^o- > * wla_ko- > OE wlo:h 'fiber, fringe', Skt válça-
'shoot,
> twig', Sl * volsU 'hair'
>
> > Fringe
>
> * walk^smn, > G lo:~ma 'hem, fringe'
>
> > Felt
>
> * pilyo- > G pi:~los 'felt', L pilleus 'felt cap'
>
> * pilsth2(o)- > Germ. * filta- 'felt'
>
> * pulsth2(o)- > Sl * pUlstI 'felt', Skt pulastí- 'wearing the hair
> straight'
>