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Re: another language reconstruction question

From:Muke Tever <mktvr@...>
Date:Thursday, October 31, 2002, 15:04
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.] *Muke! -- http://www.frath.net/

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