Re: Origin of *h2arh3-trom 'plough'

From: Piotr Gasiorowski
Message: 69747
Date: 2012-06-03

W dniu 2012-06-03 10:05, Richard Wordingham pisze:

> Seems unlikely - the 'earth, dirt' starts with a plain glottal stop. One
> of the Hebrew 'plough' verbs, _Haratz_, may have some influence from the
> 'earth' word.

Vennemann, of course, regards both <plough> and <earth> as "Semitidic"
loanwords in Germanic (Hebrew {plh.} 'to furrow', PSem. *?rd.). Seek
hard in Orel & Stolbova, and ye will find ;)

Piotr