Re: Origin of *h2arh3-trom 'plough'

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

>
> > As proposed by Alinei, the word 'plough' would be an Iron Age

Wanderwort

> > related to Celtic **Flow-jo-* 'rudder'.
>
> There are lots of words related to Celtic *Fluwio- ~ *Fluwi: (as it
> should be reconstructed, cf. MW llyw, OIr. luí) all over the place.

But

> they are nautical, not agricultural, from the widespread root *pleu-
> 'sail, float'.
>

The etymology makes perfectly sense, because the plough breaks earth in
the same way than a rudder breaks water. But as you apparently got a
fixation on "inherited" etymologies, the trees don't allow you to see
the forest.

> > But the word 'earth' would
> > descend from the languge(s) spoken by the Neolithic farmers, so it

would

> > be related to the Afrasian word.
>
> Non sequitur, if there ever was one.
>

IMHO these Germanic-Afrasian (especially Semitic) isoglosses must
reflect the languages spoken in Central Europe Neolithic.