Re: fingers
| From: | Adam Walker <carrajena@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, June 28, 2005, 0:36 |
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--- Joe <joe@...> wrote:
> > But I still have the feeling *penkwe = five may
> has something to do
> > with it
>
>
> Strongly doubt it. Germanic languages shift 'p' to
> 'f' in almost all
> positions. And, AFAIK, no language in the vicinity
> of Germanic
> preserves both the labial stop and labiovelar stop.
> [Latin, and thus
> Romance, turns 'p' into 'q' (Latin 'quinque', French
> 'cinq', Spanish
> 'cinco', Italian 'cinque'),
In Carrajena Latin quinque > VL cinque > C-a chimvi.
the first "qu" changed to a "c" in VL and since it is
followed by an "i" it became /tS)/. The second "qu"
remained in the VL so it moved to /f/ and then being
in the voicing environment between a nasal and a vowel
it moved to /v/. The "n" then became /m/ by
assimilation.
Adam
Jin nifalud fistus todus idavi eseud adimpuudu ul isu fi aved niminchunadu pera ul
Dju peu'l medju djul provedu cumvi dichid: «Iñi! Cunchepijid ed nadajid il
virdjini ad junu huiju, ed cuamajuns ad si il Emanueli fi sñivigad ul Dju simu
noviscu.»
Machu 1:22-23