Re: Latin 'twenty'

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Anthony Appleyard"
<a.appleyard@...> wrote:

> Someone wrote:-
> > Greek eíkosi/Fíkati (*ewi:km.ti) points to *h1wi-h1k^m.tíh1
> > (presumably from *dwi-dk^m.tíh1 with twice *d > *h1). ...
>
> This [wi-] could be related to the very common Sanskrit prefix [vi-

]

> = "apart". It may come from PIE [h1wi-]. It occurs in the Sanskrit
> word "vimana". This is "apart - having-been-measured" and likeliest
> at first meant "land measured out and made holy". Then it
> meant "temple" and then "a god's palace". Then it was used for
> Ravana's flying palace called [puSpaka] in the Rama_yana story.

cf.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Nostratic-L/message/164

'dew-' "apart"
'ewi-' "apart"

and both mean "two" in some circumstances. Maybe Møller was right
about his 'd-preformative'?

Torsten