Re: Origin of *h2arh3-trom 'plough'

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski <gpiotr@...> wrote:
>
> *h2árh3-tro- occurs in most of the Core IE (non-Anatolian and
> non-Tocharian) branches, but not outside the crown clade. Toch.B a:re
> 'ard, plough' seems to reflect *h2arh3-o- (or an s-neuter stem
> *h2arh3-os), and the Anatolian meaning of *h2arh3- and its derivatives
> (*h2arh3-s-) is not even 'to plough', strictly speaking, but rather
> 'crush, till (soil)'.
>
Precisely. This would match the Afrasian forms.

****R

Is there, on the other hand, any link between the AA word for "plow" and for "earth, dirt" e.g. Hebrew erets ?

> My impression is that the meaning 'plough'
> developed in the Core+Tocharian group, and the nomen instrumenti in
> *-tlo-, widespread as it is, is a common innovation of Core IE (lost
in
> Indo-Iranian together with many other agricultural terms).
>
IMHO they weren't "lost" but actually they never got there.