Re: Divergence vs. convergence

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Jörg Rhiemeier <joerg_rhiemeier@...> wrote:

> Perhaps the
> word is a loanword from a non-IE people of the Ancient Near
> East from whom the Indo-Europeans learned metallurgy.

The earliest known metal-working was found in Serbia - metal-working might be an IE invention!

Richard.