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Re: Questions about Hungarian

From:John Cowan <cowan@...>
Date:Monday, May 3, 2004, 0:12
Racsko Tamas scripsit:

> A vocabulary concordance example: The cardinals '1-6' and '100' are > common in FU languages (except Hungarian that changed '1'; '100' is > Aryan borrowing), but the structure of '8-9' is same in fact that the > elements don't compare: 'two-minus-ten, one-minus-ten'.
Finnish is interesting here: 8 and 9 are "two less than *deksan*" and "one less than *deksan*", but "deksan" (which is obviously IE) is not the Finnish for 10. -- Values of beeta will give rise to dom! John Cowan (5th/6th edition 'mv' said this if you tried http://www.ccil.org/~cowan to rename '.' or '..' entries; see jcowan@reutershealth.com http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/dmr/odd.html)

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