--- In Nostratica@yahoogroups.com, "John <jdcroft@...>"
<jdcroft@...> wrote:

> Gerry asked
>
> > Actually how large a number of loan words is there in Sumerian of
> IE origin? 20, 200, 2000?
>
> Actually it might be the other way around, with Sumerian loan words
> in PIE. Some have suggested that IE *kweklo (wheel - circle)

IE *kWelkWlo, surely?

> comes
> from Sumerian *gigir.

Why the asterisk?

And Hebrew g-lg-l, meaning 'to turn', 'wheel' also fits in here.
(Torsten has these words in the 'bend, turn' set he invited us to
discuss a few weeks ago.)

Richard.