Re: Survey of conlangs: numbers

Quoting Benct Philip Jonsson <bpj@...>:

> At 16:29 27.11.2003, Andreas Johansson wrote:
>
> > > >8   ašt
> > >
> > > Sanskrit influence? (as`t`au).
> >
> >Rather less exotic, I'm afraid; it's one of the smallish number of words in
> >Tairezazh that are simply arbitrary distortions of real-world words, in
> this
> >case German _acht_ [axt] "eight".
> >
> >Now, I assume the Sanskrit is cognate to the German, so there's indeed a
> >connection!
>
> Indeed.  The PIE form was /ok_jto:u/ whence e.g. Latin _octo:_.
> BTW it actually becomes /aSt/ in several Indo- and Irano-Aryan languages.
Cool. As I mentioned in a post a week ago or so, I wonder how many such little
surprises are lying waiting in the average a priori conlang.

                                                         Andreas