Re: "As"

From: Richard Wordingham
Message: 50421
Date: 2007-10-22

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "fournet.arnaud" <fournet.arnaud@...>
wrote:

> Pt 2 :
> As regards YueZhi :
> another name is RouZhi < *njaw- instead of *ngjaw.

Now, Tocharian does have initial /ñ/, and in inherited words to boot:
Tocharian A and B _ñu_ 'nine' and A _ñom_ B _ñem_ 'name'.

FWIW, there's a Proto-Tibetan-Burmese reconstruction *g-nis for 'two',
and the Chinese reflexes include platal and velar nasals. Tocharian
does have words in kn-, e.g. _kna:_ 'know'.

Richard.