Re: Origin of *h2arh3-trom 'plough'

From: Tavi
Message: 69756
Date: 2012-06-04

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Rick McCallister <gabaroo6958@...> wrote:
>
> How far do plug words go in Germanic?
> I found this on line but . . .
> plug (v.) 
> "close tightly (a hole), fill," 1620s, from plug (n.). Meaning "work energetically at" is c.1865. Sense of "popularize by repetition" is from 1906. Slang sense "put a bullet into" is recorded from 1870. Related: Plugged; plugging.
> plug (n.) 
> 1620s, originally a seamen's term, probably from Du. plug, from M.Du. plugge "bung, stopper," related to Norw. plugg, Dan. pløg, M.L.G. pluck, Ger.pflock; ultimate origin uncertain. Sense of "wad or stick of tobacco" is attested from 1728. Electrical sense is from 1883; meaning "sparking device in an internal combustion engine" is from 1886. Meaning "advertisement" first recorded 1902, American English, perhaps from verb sense "work energetically at" (c.1865).
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As many other Germanic words with initial p-, 'plug' is possibly a NWB loanword corresponding to native 'block':
block (n.) 
"solid piece," c.1300, from O.Fr. bloc "log, block" of wood (13c.), via M.Du. bloc "trunk of a tree" or O.H.G. bloh, from a common Germanic source, from PIE *bhlugo-, from *bhelg- "a thick plank, beam" (see balk). Meaning "mould for a hat" is from 1570s. Slang sense of "head" is from 1630s. In cricket from 1825; in U.S. football from 1912. The meaning in city block is 1796, from the notion of a "compact mass" of buildings; slang meaning "fashionable promenade" is 1869. Extended sense of "obstruction" is first recorded 1640s.
block (v.) 
"obstruct," 1590s, from Fr. bloquer "to block, stop up," from O.Fr. bloc (see block (n.)). Meaning "to make smooth or to give shape on a block" is from 1620s. Stage and theater sense is from 1961. Sense in cricket is from 1772; in U.S. football from 1889. Related: Blocked; blocking.