[tied] Re: IE right & 10

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, enlil@... wrote:

> The *-t is a termination. It's *dekm-t. The *-t- is also found in
> the ordinal ending *-to-. So this numeral is fundamentally *dekm.
> The word *dekmt presumably meant "a group of ten; a decad" as
> opposed to "ten".

So was the *-t termination a recent phenomenon within IE's history?

> > The termination *-M indicates a frozen accusative of a root noun.
>
> This is a "conclusion" that's equally untenable for *dekm as it is
> for the Semitic-derived *septm (< *sab`atum) from which we can
> obtain no such suffix at all. Further, morphologically, there's
> absolutely no reason for an accusative suffix of all things
> (something that marks the _ANIMATE object_ of a sentence!!!) to be
> stuck to *dekm. Why would *dekm be "animate" when it's not even
> declined for case?! Why would it exclusively be an object? The
> problems are immediately intractable.

*Sab`atum seems Akkadian. Where was it accented?

- Rob