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Re: Survey of conlangs: numbers

From:Benct Philip Jonsson <bpj@...>
Date:Thursday, November 27, 2003, 19:36
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^) -- B.Philip Jonsson mailto:melrochX@melroch.se (delete X) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~__ A h-ammen ledin i phith! \ \ __ ____ ____ _____________ ____ __ __ __ / / \ \/___ \\__ \ /___ _____/\ \\__ \\ \ \ \\ \ / / / / / / / \ / /Melroch\ \_/ // / / // / / / / /___/ /_ / /\ \ / /'Aestan ~\_ // /__/ // /__/ / /_________//_/ \_\/ /Eowine __ / / \___/\_\\___/\_\ Gwaedhvenn Angeliniel\ \______/ /a/ /_h-adar Merthol naun ~~~~~~~~~Kuinondil~~~\________/~~\__/~~~Noolendur~~~~~~ || Lenda lenda pellalenda pellatellenda kuivie aiya! || "A coincidence, as we say in Middle-Earth" (JRR Tolkien)

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