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Cognate with Ossetianфӕрӕт(færæt, “axe”) and Ancient Greekπέλεκυς(pélekus, “axe”),[1][2] and hence apparently reconstructible back to Proto-Indo-European[1][2] as *peleḱús(“axe”). The word is often considered a Wanderwort,[1] and the similarity of Akkadian𒁄(pilaqqu, “wooden handle; spindle, harp”) (from Sumerian𒁄(balag, “wooden handle; spindle, harp; possibly a split piece of wood or wooden wedge”); compare Arabicفَلَقَ(falaqa, “to split apart”)) has led some to suggest that the Proto-Indo-European word is a borrowing of the Akkadian word.[1][2]
Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “paraśu”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press
↑ 1.01.11.21.3J. P. Mallory, D. Q. Adams, The Oxford Introduction to Proto-Indo-European (2006, →ISBN): "We find cognates in Grk pélekus, Oss færæt, and Skt paraśú, and the proto-form is often compared with Semitic forms, e.g. Akkadian pilakku which some translate as 'axe' but others translate as 'spindle', which is semantically very distant."
↑ 2.02.12.2Martin Bernal, Black Athena: The linguistic evidence