[tied] Re: More numbers

--- In cybalist@..., Miguel Carrasquer <mcv@...> wrote:

> On Tue, 01 Oct 2002 13:13:36 -0000, "tgpedersen" <tgpedersen@...>

wrote:

>
> >> >Notice also Guanche (Tenerife) cansa "five".
> >>
> >> Borrowed from Semitic, like arba "4".
> >
> >I wish I had your conviction of mind, w.r.to the direction of
> >loaning, I mean. /k/ (I asssume it is)
>
> Probably /x/, as Guanche was glossed by Spaniards (and at the time,

Spanish

> didn't have a velar fricative).

Nice try. /k/ is /k/.

>
> >vs. /h/ seems to suggest the
> >other direction (but Gran Canaria simus-etti might be loaned the
> >direction you want it to, ie. from a Semitic language to Greater
> >Canaria;
>
> No. simusetti is clearly Berber.

We were talking about direction.

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