--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "piervantrink" <piervantrink@...> wrote:
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> h2arh3 looks like Arabic h2arath (IE h2=Arabic laryngeal "h")
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This corresponds to Semitic root
*X\VruT- 'to till, to plough (land)' > Akkadian
ere:s^u 'to till land', Hebrew
X\rs^ 'to plough land', etc. The IE 'plough' word is actually a derivated noun from the verbal root 'to plough'.
Your beloved Professor [sic] Fournet (once a member of this list) proposed instead a link to
*dz(^)ry/w?(\) 'to sow, to cultivate' (Hebrew
zr?\ 'to sow'), as he's convinced that Semitic
?\ (a voiced pharyngeal fricative represented by the ayin letter) corresponds to PIE
*h3. Unfortunately, this etymology doesn't explain neither initial
*h2 nor the semantic shift.