Re: [tied] The role of analogy, alliteration and sandhi in counting

--- petusek <petusek@...> wrote:

> Vaclav Blazek (Numerals) offers a weird solution to
> some numerals in some of the World's languages.
>
> He suggests that some of the strange phonetic
> irregularities in numerals may be due to an analogy,
> alliteration and sandhi that take place when numbers
> are counted in a set (e.g. from 1 to 10 or sim.) We
> have all encountered alliterative and analogical
> changes, of course. However, here is what Blazek
> assumes for IE (not that he claims it is the only
> correct explanation, in fact, he asks):

I read of some possibilities like this in
"Proto-Indo-European Arithmetic" by J. S. Sheldon,
available on the Internet. I don't agree with all of
it, but there's a lot of interesting stuff.




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