Re: Survey of conlangs: numbers

Free has been markedly crashy lately, and I simply do not now if my previous
reply to this got thru before the latest crash or not. So accept my apologies
if this turns out to be, in effect, a double post.

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

> At 07:30 27.11.2003, Andreas Johansson wrote:
>
> >At any rate, 0-10 in Tairezazh;
> >
> >0   ðaig
>
> is that [Daig]?
Indeed.

> >1   dza
> >2   sei
> >3   vef
> >4   sag
> >5   zvou
> >6   šar
> >7   tren
> >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!

> >9   trav
> >10  &#952;el
>
> I guess that's supposed to be [Zel]?
[TEl]. The mangled letter was a theta.

                                                            Andreas

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