Wile E. Coyote
In: Arizona
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On Wagons and Wheels
DPCrisp wrote: | "That's interesting," I said to myself, "since I reckon that wain, wagon, way, wake... are all the same word....." |
Difficult to argue with that.
DPCrisp wrote: | and Viking = waking |
Maybe...Norway/Norvegr....Northwaking?
Let's take a look, at the problem from an orthodox perspective......
orthodoxy wrote: |
The root wegh-, to convey, especially by wheeled vehicle," is found in virtually every branch of Indo-European, including now Anatolian. The root, as well as other widely represented roots such as aks- and nobh-, attests to the presence of the wheel -- and vehicles using it -- at the time Proto-Indo-European was spoken. [Watkins, p. 96] |
So you get.........
orthodoxy wrote: |
WAGON from Middle Dutch wagen, waghen, from Proto-Germanic *wagnaz (cf. Old English wagen, Modern English wain, Old Saxon and Old High German wagan, Old Norse vagn, Old Frisian wein, German Wagen), from PIE *woghnos, from *wegh- "to carry, to move" (cf. Sanskrit vahanam "vessel, ship," Greek okhos, Latin vehiculum, Old Church Slavonic vozu "carriage, chariot," Russian povozka, Lithuanian vazis "a small sledge," Old Irish fen, Welsh gwain "carriage, cart;" |
So orthodoxy says The wagon/wain/gwain are all wheel/wegh words.
But where does that leave Car/Cart/Chariot/Carriage?
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