Re: Indo-Iranian 'one'

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Rick McCallister <gabaroo6958@...> wrote:

> If proto-Iranian is *aiwas and not *aika, then why
> does Persian have yek? (Zomplist has yak, but the
> Persians I've known all said "yek). Were there
> competing forms in proto-iranian?

Look one line up - Pahlavi _e:vak_. And wouldn't proto-Iranian
**aika- have given Persian *yeg?

I concur that Zompist seems to have got the Persian vowel wrong.

Richard.