Re: [tied] Re: House and City

On Thu, 22 Mar 2001 10:44:14 -0000, tgpedersen@... wrote:

>Møller had the IE/AA 'tree' thing too.

"Tree" (Møller *dr-w) or "three" (Møller *tr-)?

>If 'coincidence' is the mantra to pass the gate without being jumped,
>here's another coincidence:
>
>http://www.zompist.com/niger.htm#niger
>
>look for the numeral 'three'

Indeed, a lot of the Niger-Congo words for "three" seem to go back to
something like *tar-.

>http://www.angelfire.com/rant/tgpedersen/numbers.html

I quote:

> ekah, eka "one" Sanskrit

> ekahi, atahi- Hawai'i, Nanumea

The Hawaiian word is from *<?e tasi>, which has little to do with
Pre-Aryan *aikwa-

> catvar "four", Sanskrit.

> kuver- Lenakel
> keta- Kwamera
> kuber- Lenakel
> kuwas- Ikyau
> kewet- E. Tanna, N. Tanna, Lenau
> ku-et- Iarkei, Loniel
> kefa- Isiai, Yatuk
> kuik- Wogeo
> kiki- Bam
> vari- Araki
> fari- Filakara
> beri- Lamenu, Mapremo, Nuvi, Bonkovia, Burupika
> bir- Fali
> bier- Baiap, Sesivi
> pat?- common Oceanic

All the above languages are Oceanic, so in fact the only relevant
entry is "common Oceanic" *pat?-, which gives Lenakel -Ber, Ikyau
-was, Tanna -wet, Iarkei/Loniel -et, Kwamera/Isiai/Yatuk -fa, and the
last five forms (vari .. bier), without a k-prefix. The Wogeo and Bam
words are unrelated, and are apparently formed on a (sort of) base 2
system ("4" = 2 + 2) as found in a lot of Papuan lgs. (see:
http://www.zompist.com/newg.htm#papua).


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