Henrik Theiling scripsit:
> Hi!
>
> John Cowan <cowan@...> writes:
> >...
> > 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.
>
> Hmm? I thought one of the lemmas of 'yksi' is 'yhd-' and one of
> 'kaksi' is 'kahd-'. The numbers in certain forms show great
> similarity to the '-deksan' numbers.
Ah. Shows what I know. Thanks.
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