Re: [tied] numbers {was: Venus}

From: Sean Whalen
Message: 34427
Date: 2004-10-04

--- Richard Wordingham
<richard.wordingham@...> wrote:

>
> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "loreto bagio"
> <bagoven20@...>
> wrote:
> > Actually with regards to the father, the son and
> the holy ghost I
> > can see them as the numbers eight, nine and ten in
> IE-Semitic. See
> > Spanish 'ocho', 'nueve', 'diez' from PIE *okto:
> *newn *dekm .
> > Perhaps the ultimate idea is The old, the new, and
> the eternal.


> Loreto, this strikes me as a pure word-game, and as
> such has no
> place on Cybalist.
>
> Richard (moderator).
>

I doubt that nine and new are related in PIE,
anyway. In even the oldest known Greek, for example,
the words are ennewa and newos (e- in ennewa probably
indicating it began in a "laryngeal").





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