Re: Etruscana (was: some Proto-Quendic grammar)

In a message dated 11/20/2003 5:00:14 PM Eastern Standard Time,
ray.brown@FREEUK.COM writes:


>As singular & plurals seem to be fairly
>straightforward to spot,
>I do not understand why Fred Woudhuizen thinks 'thu' is a plural numeral.


I don't know either.  He does not seem to explain his reasoning in the book,
but I understand it's not unheard of in some languages for some numerals > 1
to be used with nouns of singular form.

It is conceivable that he succumbed to a bias: he believes Etruscan is
related to IE, and there must have been a temptation to align "thu" with "two" and
its cognates if he could find any way to do so.

Doug

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