Re: Odp: [tied] Arya-

From: Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
Message: 6771
Date: 2001-03-26

On Sun, 25 Mar 2001 19:50:02 +0200, Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
<mcv@...> wrote:

>On Sun, 25 Mar 2001 11:24:51 -0500 (EST), longgren@... wrote:
>
>> Indo-European borrowed numerals from Semitic? How do you explain
>>Japanes "siti" for 7?
>
>That's not a native Japanese number ("7" is <nana>). It's from
>Chinese (Mod. Mand. qi1, OChin. *shit).

Which appears to come from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-nis, not very much
like PIE *septm or PSem. *sab3atum.

>>How do you explain the Georgian words for 6 and 7?
>
>"6" is probably borrowed from IE (like "4"). "5", "7", "8, "9" and
>possibly "10" are boworrings from Semitic.
>
>>Here are the Georgian numbers:
>>1 erti
>>2 ori
>>3 sami

>>4 otxi (Svan wo:s^dxw)
PIE *h3ok^t-oh3 "8"

>>5 xuti (Svan wo-xwis^d)
Semitic xamast > Ass. xawast > *xwis^t-

>>6 ekvsi (Svan usgwa)
Cf. Arm. vec` < *uswek^s

>>7 shvidi (Svan is^gwid)
Semitic sab3at > *s^wid-

>>8 rva
Semitic arba3- "4"

>>9 cxra
Semitic tis3a-

>>10 ati (Svan jes^d)
Semitic 3as'rat- (?)


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