Re: Finnish KASKA

Yes, I seem to remember that years back, someone
commented on 2, 4 and 8 in IE and Caucasian, among
other languages. Something about the dual endings. I
seem to remember Miguel was involved in the
discussion.
All I remember more or less concretely is that in some
Caucasian language, the word for 4 is similar to IE 8.
But there were other issues as well. If someone can
track down the post --about 10 years ago or so or if
someone remembers it, it maybe Arnaud can find
something interesting here.
Also keep in mind that Japanese (Old J) singular and
duplicate forms of numbers and some have analyzed
Japanese 9 as 3-3-3. So maybe you're on to something.

--- "fournet.arnaud" <fournet.arnaud@...>
wrote:

>
> This is the first time I hear of umlaut though. I
> frankly don't think
> it is possible to increase the economy of
> interpretation by this
> invention. Finnic also went the other way *kektä or
> *käktä became
> Finnish kaksi '2' for example. Nobody knows why. But
> Indo-
> Europeanists would know that numerals are tricky.
>
> Jouppe
> ============
>
> Two was *kukt-
> and the -i- is a later addition of Finnish
> after *kukt bacame *kakt
> in Western Uralic.
>
> Mordvin is kafta and kawto
> with no -i-.
> Data are stubborn...
>
> And this root for number two
> has a strange look-alike
> with word "four" kwetw(er)
> A kind of reduplication
> ku-kwt-
>
> Arnaud
> =============
>
>
>

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