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

From:Doug Dee <amateurlinguist@...>
Date:Friday, November 21, 2003, 0:26
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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Ray Brown <ray.brown@...>