On 2008-11-14 12:05, kishore patnaik wrote:
> Are you saying that kingship was known to PIE speakers or not?
It depends on what you understand by "kingship". It a tribal chief with
a few hundred "subjects" a king? Was the tyrant of an ancient Greek
city-state a king? We often call them "kings" for convenience, simply
because there is no universally recognised definition of monarchy.
Piotr