Re: [tied] Finnish -kummentä- : any connection to PIE?

Kymmentä not *kummentä. You must mean the multiples of 10 from 20
(kaksikymmentä) to 90 (yhdeksänkymmentä). It is the partitive of
kymmen (noun) 'ten' and kymmenen (numeral) '10', so they mean 'two
tens' etc. Kymmen(en) is not considered to be related to *dek^m. (and
there's a good chance this was in fact *dek^m.t).

Kim Bastin

On Sat, 30 Dec 2006 03:40:25 -0000, you wrote:

>I noted that the numbers from 11 to 19 in Finnish all end in "kummentä"
>or "kymmentä". Is this at all related to Indo-European *dek^m in zero-
>grade form (dk^m.)?
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