On Indo-European Roads

In this article the Indo-European terms designating "road" and related terms, namely "path/pathway/foothpath", "sidewalk", "way", "trajectory/course", "route", "street", "track", "trail", "ford", "(foot)bridge", are summarized and analyzed from the point of view of their semantics, word-formation, and etymology. Most of them are derived from the verbs of motion, others can he explained from their technology, material or means of transport for which these roads were determined. At. least. in two cases the external parallels confirm the older, inherited, age of the analyzed terms (*b(h)rodho-,*d(h)reg(h)-).