Re: [tied] Re: Fun with prenasalized stops.txt

On Sun, 04 Feb 2007 19:24:23 -0000, "tgpedersen"
<tgpedersen@...> wrote:

>> This Old Irish nasalization takes place after former previous nasal,
>> and its surprising it should happen here. The only ending that looks
>> promising for postulating an ending in a nasal is *-au/*-a:, which
>> would then be *-onW/-o:, and perhaps *-inW/*-unW for the -i and
>> -u-stem's *-i: and *-u:. Why it is limited to the neuter in Old Irish,
>> I don't know.

The neuter NA dual always merged with the NA singular in Old
Irish, in all declensions (o-, i-, u- and C-stems). The
nasalization in the NA n. dual of vowel stems is
unetymological (and so is the nasalisation in the NAsg. n.
of i- and u-stems).

>> The Dsg of "two" is Skt. dvabhyam.
>>
>
>I forgot: In Old Irish the numerals 7, 8, 9 and 10 all nasalize the
>following initial. PIE 7, 9 and 10 end in nasal, but 8 is a dual.

Cf. Greek combining okta- "8-", based on hepta- "7-", Slavic
osmI "8" based on sedmI "7", Lith. septynì, as^tuonì, devynì
"7, 8, 9", and the I-I ordinals saptamá-, as'tamá-, navamá-,
das'amá-.

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