Wurdahuzdą: Proto-Germanic dictionary

noun masculine a-stem plough Of disputed origin. Possibly borrowed from Proto-Celtic *ɸlowyos, *ɸlowī (‘rudder’), from Proto-Indo-European *plów-yo-s (‘ship’), from the root *plew- (‘to fly, flow, run’). Compare Albanian plor (‘prow of a boat; ploughshare’). Alinei also mentions the Latin plaumoratum , with the second element possibly relating to the family of Latin rota, Proto-Celtic *rotos and Proto-Germanic *raþą (‘wheel’). Guus Kroonen has suggested a connection of the Germanic and the Latin words to *plehan (‘to take responsibility, care’) (“to care for one’s life” > “to plow”); compare Old High German pfluog (‘livelihood’) and Icelandic plógur, plóg (‘profit’), which could nevertheless point as well to the opposite morpho-semantic evolution. Otherwise he proposes a connection with Proto-Germanic *plag/kkōn- (‘rag, sod’), which seems a bit far-fetched.