Re: Mille (thousand)

From: Rick McCallister
Message: 54916
Date: 2008-03-09

Miguel, show him your speculative work on Basque you
did a few years back. What archives is it in?


--- "fournet.arnaud" <fournet.arnaud@...>
wrote:
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
>
> piluT piTuT
> tiluT tiTuT
> kiluT kiTuT
> iluT iTuT
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>
> I don't understand what this gibberish letter-game
> means.
> Please explain.
> Arnaud
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>
> It is obviously tempting to choose *tilud, which
> would
> connect the Basque form with PSem. *t_ala:t_
> (c^ala:c^),
> PBerber *s^rad. ~ *k.rad. and PIE *trej-/tr.ti- (<
> **tiláti).
>
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> Connection between PIE *trey < *tley
> and Semitic th_l_th is fairly obvious.
> I agree with this point.
>
> Now
> Basque hiru and
> Etruscan ki
> do look alike.
>
> Arnaud
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