[tied] Re: septm [was: Caland [was -m (-n)?]]

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

> On Thu, 27 Nov 2003 14:09:57 +0000, Richard Wordingham
> <richard.wordingham@...> wrote:
>
> >--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "tgpedersen" <tgpedersen@...>

wrote:

>
> >> For what it's worth, in Mark Rosenfelder's
> >>
> >> http://www.zompist.com/mide.htm#afro
> >>
> >> check out "seven" and "eight" for two Northern Omotic languages

of

> >> the Gonga group:
> >>
> >> Mocha shabá.tto shimítto
> >> Anfilo shabattó shimittó
> >>
> >> Loans from some Ethiopic language?
> >
> >Their words for 'ten' also look Semitic.
>
> 6-10 are all borrowed from Amharic (except Shinasha '10'). In

Anfillo, 5

> (amitto) is too.
>
> >The South Omotic and Dizoid
> >words for 'seven' also look Semitic. However, I don't know that

the

> >latter forms aren't cognate.
>
> That look more like cognates (tobba, tub`a, tabzá, tossum; tù:sú,

tubsu,

> tessen <) *tubzu (?) ~ *sab`u.
>

Actually, what I wanted to draw attenton to was that in one
language, "seven" and "eight" have moved the stress to the last
syllable. But thanks for all the other information.

Torsten