Re: Why borrow 'seven'? (was: IE right & 10)

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "andrew_and_inge" <100761.200@...>
wrote:

> ...But to turn this question into a linguistic and indeed
> etymological question: Does anyone have a word for "Nature" (as
> in "natural order", or a "law of nature", or "what is natural for
> man") from any language that was not influenced by Greek?

How about Sankrit _dharma_, Pali _dhamma_ 'natural law'? There's a
Thai compound <dhrrmajaati> (transcribing it as Indic) /tham M ma H
chaat F/ that as an adjective means 'natural', even in the sense
of 'without cosmetics'. (The <jaati> /chaat F/ part literally
means 'race, decent; birth'.)

Richard.