Re: Survey of conlangs: numbers
| From: | Benct Philip Jonsson <bpj@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, November 27, 2003, 19:36 |
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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.
/BP 8^)
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