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Re: Questions about Hungarian

From:John Cowan <cowan@...>
Date:Monday, May 3, 2004, 12:00
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. -- A witness cannot give evidence of his John Cowan age unless he can remember being born. jcowan@reutershealth.com --Judge Blagden http://www.ccil.org/~cowan