User:PUC/Standing issues

This has probably been discussed before, but everything I could find is this old BP conversation. I've had some disagreements with User:Sgconlaw about this; sometimes, I think his etymologies go back too far, and become unreadable.

For example, at, I chose to remove the bit about the Proto-Indo-European origin of the Latin verb.

I think User:Vahagn Petrosyan will agree with me, but I'm unclear on what the community at large thinks about the issue. ~