--- In Nostratica@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski
<piotr.gasiorowski@...> wrote:

>

> > The root *kir seems to be related to *kwel e.g. *kwer/*kwir. No?
>
> Nope. Latin *kirk- seems somehow related to Gk.

kirkos/krikos 'ring' and possibly to Lat. curvus 'bent'. These words
cannot be related to *kWel-.

>
> Piotr

Not within IE. But it is of course possible to speculate that both
were borrowed from a non-IE source and that outside of IE they might
possibly be related.

Torsten