Re: another language reconstruction question

On Thursday 31 October 2002 3:04 pm, you wrote:
> From: "Steg Belsky" <draqonfayir@...>
>
> > > *septm= ("seven", oddly shaped altogether, thought to be from Semitic).
> > >     *Muke!
> > >
> > |*septm=| from Semitic?  I can see how |sep| could be related to ||SB|| -
> >
> > but how do you get |tm=| from /3/ (voiced pharyngeal
> > fricative/approximant)?
>
> Hey, I dont come up with these things :p
> It's just a hypothesis that I've read and AFAICT there isnt any real
> evidence for it.  One could also possibly throw in Etruscan <semph> "7" in
> as well. [Well, technically you couldn't, because science doesn't work that
> way.  But you could do it as a starting place for looking.]
>
>

Um..there's no deciphered Etruscan word for seven, AFAIK.  I think that's
just a guess...