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Posted: 20 Aug 2013

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“The guy who invented the first wheel was an idiot. The guy who invented the other three, he was a genius.”

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Certainly the circumstance that the Sanskrit word for ‘chariot,’ ‘ratha’ is agreed by competent linguistics to be linguistic to be cognate with the Latin for ‘wheel’, ‘rota’, is interesting, and merits historical explanation. But that is far cry from saying that the two cognate words tell us that some hypothetical Proto-Indo-Europeans used chariots with. . . Certainly the circumstance that the Sanskrit word for ‘chariot’, ‘ratha,’ is agreed by competent wheels (or indeed carts with wheels) in their original homeland. ~ Page 86 Excerpt "Archaeology and Language"
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