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

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Richard Wordingham"
<richard.wordingham@...> wrote:

> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, enlil@... wrote:
> > Richard:
> > > My idea is that the concept was tabooed, as I understand has
> happened
> > > with 'hare' (details not to hand).
> >
> > If it were tabooed, why would they all adopt the same Semitic
> root? I
> > don't think it was tabooed. I just think that it was holy. I don't
> > think that something that's holy need necessarily be a taboo.
>
> Pre-Neolithic Semitic-based Mediterranean lingua franca? What's
> your explanation? A Semitic priesthood?
>

If yes, they got all the way to Japan (subaru/suharu/sumaru).

Torsten