From: Tavi
Message: 70955
Date: 2013-02-16
>In my (not humble) opinion, the word 'oak' is a substrate loanword from some language spoken in Paleolithic Europe.
> This is wonderful for an Indo-European list: onomatopoetics instead of
> etymology, while as for *perkwu-s one likes a chain of loans and the
> other one detects optional rules...
>