Buck's book does not have the word for "heel", but I noticed some
strange patterns from accross language families.

First we have Greek Achilles (which I assume is something like
/axil/ or /axile/) which compares well with English "heel".

But Akkadian has "akilu" (heel). The well-known sound
change l>sh (which especially splits Turkic into CT and BT)
gives *akishu leading to *akshu and thus to Turkic Okche.

I already gave Turkic aksa (to limp) (which I think is from
*apsa, and which I linked to the root *ap, and to various
other things). Sumerian has words like ik (cripple, frozen, I think) which
leads me to believe that this is a truly Nostratic root.

I am curious, what are the words for "heel" in other IE languages and
other languages.

(PS. I think the Achilles=heel=Okche was pointed out first by K. Kartal).

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