From: Arnaud Fournet
Message: 60333
Date: 2008-09-25
----- Original Message -----
From: "Brian M. Scott" <BMScott@...>
To: "Andrew Jarrette" <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Thursday, September 25, 2008 9:17 PM
Subject: Re: [tied] Re: Comparative Notes on Hurro-Urartian, Northern
Caucasian and Indo-European
>
> At 2:19:15 PM on Thursday, September 25, 2008, Andrew
> Jarrette wrote:
>
> [...]
>
>> An aside: The words for "axle" in many IE languages,
>> including the English word and Latin <axis> among others,
>> I assume derives from the root *ag^- "to drive".
>
> Watkins, at least, derives <axis> and <axle> from a
> different root, *ak^s-. Also Latin <a:la> 'wing, upper arm'
> (< *axla).
>
> Brian
>
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Pokorny does the same
from *ag^ with phonotactical *ag^-s > ak^-s-
Arnaud