From: tgpedersen
Message: 51041
Date: 2007-12-30
>http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/21834
> > Worldwide, both *pa and *ta seem to be involved in a great many
> words > for senior male relative.
> =====
> > > I was pleased to notice the reconstructions for the number 5,
> > > *f-h\a_X and even moreso upon seeing the Proto-Sino-Caucasian
> > > reconstruction, *xNwäH\V. What pleased me was the similarity to
> > > the Indo-European *peNk_we [usual notation *penkWe - RW]. If a
> > > parallel were to be made, one might suppose that the final
> > > syllable of the Proto-Sino-Caucasian was dropped, leaving
> > > something like *xNwE;
> ==
> > It doesn't take much imagination to see a connection with Semitic
> > *H-m-s either. Neither is compelling in the absence of other
> > correspondences.
> > Richard.
> =====
> Arnaud
> I would rather cut penkwe as pen = pan "whole" and kwe "hand".
> From k-m?-
> As in Hebreu t-?-m?- "twin" > PIE d-w (t+? = d)
> Hence from k-m?
> Arabic x-m-s (x = velar unvoiced spirant)
> Uralic kom-t, kum-en, hand, five, ten
> PIE pen-kwe : entire hand = five
> And as usual !!
> Germanic loanword from an Asiatic language : komt > hand
> And *hant-i being a "root-noun" does not protect it from being a
> loanword.