Re: Comparative Notes on Hurro-Urartian, Northern Caucasian and Indo

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Arnaud Fournet" <> I was expecting
this chain.

> I agree with "*agsla: > *a(k)sla: > a:la. The changes here are

regular."

>
> It's the first step that I disagree with.
>
> To start with, I think such a thing like -tl- is impossible in PIE.
> This cluster becomes -tr-.

Then what of Germanic words like OE (Anglian) <ne:þl> "needle",
<boþl> "dwelling", and Lithuanian words like <arklas> "plough"? Don't
these go back to PIE *-tl-?

AJ