From: Tavi
Message: 69691
Date: 2012-05-26
>This is a typical example of a *Wanderwort* related to metallurgy. The Armenian word is in all probability an Urartean borrowing related to Hurrian tabrenni 'smith'. IMHO the origin is a phonosymbolic root *tap- ~ *dab- describing the hitting of metal.
> I honestly think professional linguists (including of course IE-ists)
> are far better than myself in that. To quote an example, there's a PIE
> root *dhabh-ro- 'smith' concocted on the basis of Latin faber, Armenian
> darbin and a bunch of look-alikes.
>