Re: Similarities in Caucasian languages to Indo-European

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

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> 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

FU

5 - *viite/*vitte
10 - *luka

Häkkinen in her etymological dictionary discourages trying to equate
Finnish 'kämmen' hand and 'kymmenen' 10 "for reasons of sound change
mixture".

> 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.

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> Arnaud
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