Re: EAK numerals
| From: | Philip Newton <philip.newton@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, May 27, 2007, 19:15 |
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On 5/27/07, R A Brown <ray@...> wrote:
> But the ancient _ (h)ekatón_ (Arcadian _hekoton_) is from *_sem kn=tom_
> = one hundred :)
Oh! Never knew that. Fascinating.
> If one has _e-kósio_, for the reasons I've stated above, then it does
> not seem unreasonable to me to have _e-déka_ for the sake of consistency.
And no confusion with *éndeka, since that becomes _e-déka enó_ in EAK.
Cheers,
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Philip Newton <philip.newton@...>