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'Kalamos' is derived from Greek, not 'Proto-Indo-European'[edit]
It is simply too convenient to attribute roots of words to a hypothetical language, when the evidence for such derivations is absolutely nil.
The notion that 'Kalamos' is derived from Proto-Indo-European, simply because similar words exist in 2 other Indo-European languages, Latin and Sanskrit, is without basis in fact. Latin absorbed a huge amount of Greek words, and Calamus is very likely one of them. Likewise, after the conquests of Alexander through central Asia up to to India, various Hellenistic kingdoms were established, including the Graeco-Bactrian kingdom and the Indo-Greek kingdom. A large amount of Greek knowledge (for example, Greek astronomy), culture, and linguistic terms entered India in this way.
