Re: Scientist's etymology vs. scientific etymology

--- stlatos <stlatos@...> wrote:
...

> I'm more partial to an explanation including:

>
> In any event, I think the *kWe in '4, 5' are the
> result of 'and' in
> counting 1-10 being analyzed as part of the numbers.
> If so, no
> *kWtru+, etc., existed.
>

Are you analysing kwetor- (vel sim) as something "and
many" --i.e. relating **tor- to "thorp, throng, turba"
and possibly "three"?
If you do that, I see a problem with 5 *penkwe- (vel
sim), because the *kwe is now at the end. But do you
mean "and hand"?