Re: Origin of *h2arh3-trom 'plough'

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski <gpiotr@...> wrote:

>
> > 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 ;)
>

As proposed by Alinei, the word 'plough' would be an Iron Age Wanderwort related to Celtic *Flow-jo- 'rudder'. But the word 'earth' would descend from the languge(s) spoken by the Neolithic farmers, so it would be related to the Afrasian word.